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Reforming the Art of Living = Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology /

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Title/Author:	Reforming the Art of Living/ by Rico Vitz.
Reminder of title:	Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology /
Author:	Vitz, Rico.
Description:	XII, 154 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Ethics. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05281-6
ISBN:	9783319052816

Reforming the Art of Living = Nature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology /
Vitz, Rico.

Reforming the Art of LivingNature, Virtue, and Religion in Descartes's Epistemology /[electronic resource] :by Rico Vitz. - 1st ed. 2015. - XII, 154 p.online resource. - Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture,240928-9518 ;. - Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture,24.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Cartesian Meditation and the Pursuit of Virtue -- The Cartesian Framework -- Morality as a Cosmopolitan Art -- Virtuous Belief Formation -- Virtue, Volition, and Judgment -- Natural Beatitude and Religious Reform -- The Subversion of Traditional Christianity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Descartes’s concern with the proper method of belief formation is evident in the titles of his works—e.g., The Search after Truth, The Rules for the Direction of the Mind, and The Discourse on Method of rightly conducting one’s reason and seeking the truth in the sciences. It is most apparent, however, in his famous discussions, both in the Meditations and in the Principles, of one particularly noteworthy source of our doxastic errors—namely, the misuse of one’s will. What is not widely recognized, let alone appreciated and understood, is the relationship between his concern with belief formation and his concern with virtue. In fact, few seem to realize that Descartes regards doxastic errors as moral errors and as sins both because such errors are intrinsically vicious and because they entail notably deleterious social consequences. Reforming the Art of Living seeks to rectify this rather common oversight in two ways. First, it aims to elucidate the nature of Descartes’s account of virtuous belief formation. Second, it aims both (i) to illuminate the social significance of Descartes’s philosophical program as it relates to the understanding and practice not of science, but of religion and (ii) to develop a kind of Leibnizian critique of this aspect of his program. More specifically, it aims to show that Descartes’s project is “dangerous,” insofar as it is subversive not only of traditional Christianity but also of other traditional forms of religion, both in theory and in practice.

ISBN: 9783319052816

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-05281-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Ethics.

LC Class. No.: BJ1-1725

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