Essays on descartes
Auteur :
Hoffman, Paul
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195321104
Date de publication :
23 avr. 2009
Dimensions :
15,6 x 23,4 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
619 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In these wide-ranging essays Paul Hoffman argues that Descartes retains three Aristotelian doctrines: soul and body are related as form to matter; an agent's action is the same as the patient's passion; cognition is possible because things that exist in the world can exist in the soul in another way.