Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms

ISBN: 9781107405158 出版年：2009 页码：248 Helen Hattab Cambridge University Press

Introduction Part I. Resurrecting the Substantial Form: 1. Descartes' arguments against the substantial form 2. Aquinas' introduction of the substantial form 3. Suarez's defense of the substantial form Part II. Challenging the Substantial Form: 4. Sanchez's skeptical humanist attack 5. The mechanical alternative to substantial forms 6. Cartesian science and the principles of mechanics Part III. Eliminating Substantial Forms: 7. Atoms, modes and other heresies 8. Descartes' metaphysical alternative to substantial forms Conclusion.