How Long to Read Descartes and the Last Scholastics

How Long Does it Take to Read Descartes and the Last Scholastics?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Descartes and the Last Scholastics by Roger Ariew

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The ongoing renaissance in Descartes studies has been characterized by an attempt to understand the philosopher's texts against his own intellectual background. Roger Ariew here argues that Cartesian philosophy should be regarded as it was in Descartes's own day—as a reaction against, as well as an indebtedness to, scholastic philosophy. His book illuminates Cartesian philosophy by analyzing debates between Descartes and contemporary schoolmen and surveying controversies arising in its first reception. The volume touches upon many topics and themes shared by Cartesian and late scholastic philosophy: matter and form; infinity, place, time, void, and motion; the substance of the heavens; the object or subject of metaphysics; principles of metaphysics (being and ideas) and transcendentals (for example, unity, quantity, principle of individuation, truth and falsity). Part I exhibits the differences and similarities among the doctrines of Descartes and those of Jesuits and other scholastics in seventeenth-century France. The contrasts Descartes drew between his philosophy and that of others are the subject of Part II, which also examines some arguments in which he was involved and details the continued controversy caused by Cartesianism in the second half of the seventeenth century.

How long is Descartes and the Last Scholastics?

Descartes and the Last Scholastics by Roger Ariew is 263 pages long, and a total of 66,539 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Descartes and the Last Scholastics Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read Descartes and the Last Scholastics aloud.

What Reading Level is Descartes and the Last Scholastics?

Descartes and the Last Scholastics is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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