Comments on Adams ‘The Priority of the Perfect’
in Rationalism, Platonism and God
December 2007; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: history of Western philosophy. 5725 words.
This chapter comments on Robert Adams’ chapter on the concept of the priority of the perfect in continental rationalists’ philosophical theology. It identifies the point of the top-down strategy...
Comments on Ayers ‘Spinoza, Platonism and Naturalism’
in Rationalism, Platonism and God
December 2007; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: history of Western philosophy. 4210 words.
This chapter comments on Michael Ayers’ chapter on the strands of Platonism and naturalism in philosopher Baruch Spinoza’s metaphysics. It explains the sources of Spinoza’s Platonism and his...
Comments on Cottingham ‘Plato’s Sun and Descartes’s Stove’
in Rationalism, Platonism and God
December 2007; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: history of Western philosophy. 2381 words.
This chapter comments on John Cottingham’s chapter on Platonism in Rene Descartes’ cosmology, metaphysics, and moral theory. It explains the concept of implicit Platonism as consisting in certain...
Introduction
in Rationalism, Platonism and God
December 2007; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: history of Western philosophy. 5332 words.
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the relation between the concepts of rationalism, Platonism, and God. This book is intended as a contribution to the...
Plato’s Sun and Descartes’s Stove: Contemplation and Control in Cartesian Philosophy
in Rationalism, Platonism and God
December 2007; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: history of Western philosophy. 12488 words.
This chapter examines contemplation and control in Cartesian philosophy and sets out some of the Platonic strands in Descartes’ cosmology, metaphysics and moral theory. It argues that Descartes’...
The Priority of the Perfect in the Philosophical Theology of the Continental Rationalists
in Rationalism, Platonism and God
December 2007; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: history of Western philosophy. 10455 words.
This chapter examines the concept of the priority of the perfect in continental rationalists’ philosophical theology. It suggests that the less perfect or complete needs to be understood in terms of...
Rationalism, Platonism and God
December 2007; published online February 2012.
Book. Subjects: history of Western philosophy. 154 pages.
This book comprises three main chapters on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, with extensive responses. It explores the common ground of the great early-modern rationalist theories, and provides an...
Spinoza, Platonism and Naturalism
in Rationalism, Platonism and God
December 2007; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: history of Western philosophy. 10225 words.
This chapter examines the strands of Platonism and naturalism in philosopher Baruch Spinoza’s metaphysics. It argues that Spinoza’s hierarchical system of substance, attribute, immediate and mediate...