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portada Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy Paperback: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World
Type
Physical Book
Year
2004
Language
English
Pages
300
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Weight
0.44 kg.
ISBN
052152492x
ISBN13
9780521524926
Edition No.
1

Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy Paperback: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World

Margaret J. Osler (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Paperback

Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy Paperback: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World - Osler, Margaret J.

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Synopsis "Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy Paperback: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World"

The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions. Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on divine will and expressed his conviction that empirical methods are the only way to acquire knowledge about the natural world. Descartes, on the contrary, described a world in which God had embedded necessary relations, some of which enable us to have a priori knowledge of substantial parts of the natural world. In this book, Professor Osler explores theological conceptions of contingency and necessity in the world and how these ideas influenced the development of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. She examines the transformation of medieval ideas about God's relationship to the Creation into seventeenth-century ideas about matter and method as embodied in early articulations of the mechanical philosophy. Refracted through the prism of the mechanical philosophy, these theological conceptualizations of contingency and necessity in the world were mirrored in different styles of science that emerged in the second half of the seventeenth century.

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