Metaphysique

by Arnold Geulincx, edited by Helene Bah Ostrowiecki

Book cover: Metaphysique

Extent: 223 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Philosophy

Series: Textes de philosophie

Series volume number: 10

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(October 2017)

ISBN: 9782812450037

Price: $49.00

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Arnold Geulincx, a Flemish Cartesian, develops an original occasionalism, combining the priority of ethics with the view that man’s influence in the world is minimal. His Metaphysique (1691) puts forward a conception of the subject centered on the experience of humanity, defined by its limits.

Helene Bah Ostrowiecki, agregee de lettres classiques, est maitre de conferences a l’universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee. Auteure de travaux sur le libertinage erudit et sur Pascal, elle traduit depuis le latin des textes philosophiques du XVII siecle et a procure la premiere traduction en francais du sixieme traite du Theophrastus redivivus (Paris, 2012) et de l’Ethique de Geulincx (Turnhout, 2009).

  • By (author) Arnold Geulincx
  • Edited by Helene Bah Ostrowiecki