On Descartes' metaphysical prism : the constitution and the limits of onto-theo-logy in Cartesian thought
Examinations of Descartes' predecessors (Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Suarez) and his successors (Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hegel) clarify the meaning of the Cartesian revolution in philosophy - publisher
xvii, 370 pages ; 24 cm
9780226505381, 9780226505398, 0226505383, 0226505391
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THE CLOSURE OF A QUESTION
METAPHYSICS
An Undetermined Question
Metaphysics as Transgression
Two Decisions in Favor of a First Philosophy
Primacy and Universality: The Order and Being [l'étant]
The First Other
ONTO-THEO-LOGY
Nothing Ontological
Principle and Causa Sui
The First Pronouncement about the Being of Beings: Cogitatio
The Second Pronouncement about the Being of Beings: Causa
A Redoubled Onto-theo-logy
Ego
On the "Cogito, Sum" as a Primal Utterance
The Undetermined Equivalence of Being and Thought
The Egological Deduction of Substance
The Subsistent Temporality of the Ego
The Ego Outside Subsistence
GOD
The Question of the Divine Names
Substance and Infinity
Power and Perfections
The System of Contradictions
The Exceptional Name
OVERCOMING
Pascal within Cartesian Metaphysics
Descartes Useless and Uncertain
The Distance between the Orders
The Ego Undone and the Decentering of the Self
The Destitution of Metaphysics
THE QUESTION OF AN OPENING