Descartes’s "Letter to Voetius": The Method of Philosophy and Morality
In the Letter to Voetius (Epistola ad Voetium, 1643) Descartes defends himself against the attacks on his philosophy by the Utrecht theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676). Although much of that work is devoted to a discussion of particular questions and accusations, it also contains a few chapters...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Church history and religious culture
Year: 2020, Volume: 100, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 145-156 |
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B (political) authority B moral dimension to learning B Voetius B Descartes B Dialectic |
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| Summary: | In the Letter to Voetius (Epistola ad Voetium, 1643) Descartes defends himself against the attacks on his philosophy by the Utrecht theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676). Although much of that work is devoted to a discussion of particular questions and accusations, it also contains a few chapters of a more general nature, in which Descartes discusses the social, cultural, and moral dimensions of different types of learning. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-10002010 |