The Crisis of Causality

The Crisis of Causality
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 367
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ISBN-10 : 9789004247208
ISBN-13 : 9004247203
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Book Synopsis The Crisis of Causality by : Han van Ruler

Download or read book The Crisis of Causality written by Han van Ruler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650). Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a mechanical Universe; he also foresaw that shifting conceptions of natural causality would make it impossible for theologians to explain the relationship between God and Creation in philosophical terms. This threatened the status of theology as a scientific discipline. Apart from a detailed analysis of the Scholastic and Cartesian notions of causality, the book offers new perspectives on related subjects, such as seventeenth-century university training and the Cartesian method of science. It will be of great importance to any student of seventeenth-century intellectual history, philosophy, theology and history of science.


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