Descartes, The Aristotelians, and The Revolution That Did Not Happen In 1637

The Monist 71 (4):471-486 (1988)
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Descartes is, for us, the father of modern philosophy, the figure with whom the history of our philosophy begins, the philosopher who ended scholasticism once and for all and turned aside the excesses of Renaissance thought. And the Discours de la méthode and Essais is the work in which Descartes seems to have declared his revolution, and announced to the world his independence from the history of philosophy. In the opening pages of his first published writing, Descartes wrote

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Daniel Garber
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