IV. FOUNDING THE MODERN PROJECT: CARTESIAN DUALISM
A. Required Readings:
Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, part V [ARIEW: 19-21]
Rene Descartes, Meditations III, IV, V and VI [ARIEW: 34-55]
Secondary Literature: read one of the following
Etienne Gilson and Thomas Langan, Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant (New York: Random House, 1963), pp. 68-86.
Frederick Copleston, S.J., A History of Philosophy, Vol IV (New York: Image, 1963), pp. 116-152.
James Collins, History of European Philosophy (Milwaukee: Bruce, 1954) pp. 175-199.
B. Writing Assignment:
Write a 4 page paper on one of the following themes:
a. Descartes' notion of God
b. The dualism of body and soul.
C. Supplemental Readings:
God -
Etienne Gilson. God and Philosophy. New Haven: Yale, 1941. pp. 74-91.
Jacques Maritain. The Dream of Descartes trans. Labelle L Andison .London: Editions Poetry, 1946. pp. 83-129.
Dualism -
Jacques Maritain. Three Reformers. New York: Apollo, 1970. pp. 53-92.
Jacques Maritain. The Dream of Descartes trans. Labelle L Andison .London: Editions Poetry, 1946. pp. 130-150
William Barrett. Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer. New York: Anchor, 1987. pp. 14-20
Richard Kennington. "The 'Teaching of Nature' in Descartes' Soul Doctrine," The Review of Metaphysics. XXVI, no. 1. September 1972. pp. 86-117.
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