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Descartes on the Human Soul

Philosophy and the Demands of Christian Doctrine

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  • © 1999

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  1. C. F. Fowler

    1. The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 1-6

  3. Immortality and the Meditationes

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 7-53

  4. Descartes on Immortality Prior to 1640

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 54-66

  5. Scholasticism and Immortality

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 67-113

  6. Between Beast and Angel

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 114-160

  7. From Soul to Mind — Descartes’ Vocabulary

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 161-186

  8. What Constitutes a Demonstration of Immortality?

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 187-219

  9. The Synopsis and the Demonstration of Immortality

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 220-272

  10. “The Human Mind is a Pure Substance”

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 273-306

  11. Platonic Threat to Mind-Body Union

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 307-339

  12. Descartes’ Efforts to Secure Mind-Body Union

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 340-409

  13. Conclusion

    • C. F. Fowler
    Pages 411-414

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 415-442
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The author's aim of providing an understanding of the development, content and presentation of two aspects of Descartes' philosophy of the human soul - immortality and body-soul union - has been achieved and executed with rigour, scholarship and philosophical acuity. Fowler combines close textual analysis with a consideration of the philosophical arguments and the theological background against which these arguments were developed. This contextual approach enables him to provide new insights into the nature of Descartes' philosophy, and indeed of early modern philosophy more generally. Despite the massive scholarly documentation, this finely structured and clearly written study is eminently readable. The work is a significant contribution to the world of Cartesian scholarship which professors and graduate students of Descartes, as well as the world's libraries, must have.

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  • The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    C. F. Fowler

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