Cartesian Theodicy : Descartes' Quest for Certitude /

Almost all interpreters of Cartesian philosophy have hitherto focused on the epistemological aspect of Descartes' thought. In his Cartesian Theodicy, Janowski demonstrates that Descartes' epistemological problems are merely rearticulations of theological questions. For example, Descartes&#...

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Main Author: Janowski, Zbigniew
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2000.
Series:International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idées ; 168.
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