Essays on Descartes

by Paul Hoffman and Paul Hoffman

This is a collection of Paul Hoffman's wide-ranging essays on Descartes composed over the past twenty-five years. The essays in Part I include his celebrated "The Unity of Descartes' Man," in which he argues that Descartes accepts the Aristotelian view that soul and body are related as form to matter and that the human being is a substance; a series of subsequent essays elaborating on this interpretation and defending it against objections; and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195321103
• ISBN13: 9780195321104
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"