Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy

Name: Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521524926
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Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World

by Margaret J. Osler

Cambridge University Press

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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.

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