7. Skeptical Detachment or Loving Submission to the Good? Reason, Faith, and the Passions in Descartes
- Sarah Coakley
Published Online: 16 AUG 2012
DOI: 10.1002/9781118321997.ch7
Copyright © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Faith, Rationality, and the Passions
Additional Information
How to Cite
Cottingham, J. (2012) Skeptical Detachment or Loving Submission to the Good? Reason, Faith, and the Passions in Descartes, in Faith, Rationality, and the Passions (ed S. Coakley), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118321997.ch7
Publication History
- Published Online: 16 AUG 2012
- Published Print: 10 SEP 2012
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781444361933
Online ISBN: 9781118321997
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- detachment or loving submission to the good/reason/faith/passions;
- myth of Cartesian independence;
- the idea that all human knowledge, is rebuilt from bottom up;
- reaching God, demonstrative proof or direct encounter;
- Descartes's philosophy, far from subscribing to presuppositionless inquiry;
- Descartes's awareness of his own imperfection, in reaching God;
- profound religious experience, experience of a fissure;
- role of the passions;
- Descartes in Meditations, delivering the mind from confusion
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
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The Myth of Cartesian Independence
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Reaching God: Demonstrative Proof or Direct Encounter?
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The Role of the Passions