The Crisis of Causality : Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change

The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650).Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a mechanical Universe; he also foresaw that shifting conceptions of natural causality...

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Autor principal: Han van Ruler
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Publicado: Brill 1995
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