The Crisis of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change (Leather) (ISBN-13: 9789004103719)

Vendor: Han Van Ruler
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Format: Leather
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The Crisis of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change

$174.00

The Crisis of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change

$174.00
Format: Leather
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The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650).
Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a mechanical Universe; he also foresaw that shifting conceptions of natural causality would make it impossible for theologians to explain the relationship between God and Creation in philosophical terms. This threatened the status of theology as a scientific discipline.
Apart from a detailed analysis of the Scholastic and Cartesian notions of causality, the book offers new perspectives on related subjects, such as seventeenth-century university training and the Cartesian method of science. It will be of great importance to any student of seventeenth-century intellectual history, philosophy, theology and history of science.

Author: Han Van Ruler
ISBN-10: 9004103716
ISBN-13: 9789004103719
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1995
Pages: 354
Format: Leather
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.44w x 1.09d
By Han Van Ruler
By Han Van Ruler
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J.A. van Ruler, Ph.D. (1995) in Philosophy, University of Groningen, has published various studies on the history of seventeenth-century philosophy and theology and on the intellectual history of the Dutch Republic.

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