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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Main Author:	Han van Ruler
Format:	Book
Published:	Brill 1995
Subjects:	Philosophy of nature > History > 17th century God > History of doctrines > 17th century Causation > History > 17th century Change > History > 17th century Mechanism (Philosophy) > History > 17th century Vitalism > History > 17th century
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