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The Light of the Soul: Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes

By Nicholas Jolley

Book information

Year
1998
ISBN
9780198238195, 0198238193, 0198244436, 9780198244431, 9780191519734
LCC
B822 .J65 1990
Open Library ID
OL2212782M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1193022 bytes)
Pages
224\220
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The concept of an "idea" played a central role in 17th-century theories of mind and knowledge, but philosophers were divided over the nature of ideas. This book examines an important, but little-known, debate on this question in the work of Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes. Looking closely at the issues involved, as well as the particular context in which the debate took place, Jolley demonstrates that the debate has serious implications for a number of major topics in 17th-century philosophy.

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