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

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 | #2919428 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2005-01-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.67 x5.98l,.97 | File type: PDF | 300 pages

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|| |"Her book cannot fail to leave an enduring mark on our understanding of the Scientific Revolution....a major contribution to the growing but still small literature on Gassendi; she absolutely rejects the interpretation of Gassendi as covert materialist. The b

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, so...

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