Al een tijdje ben ik bezig met het verzamelen (en deels al lezen) van de
hoofdstukken en artikelen die John Carriero over Spinoza’s filosofie schreef.
Hij heeft een heel eigen, mij nogal intrigrende benadering; vooral daar hij
Spinoza telkens plaatst tegen de achtergrond van de klassieke – vooral Aristotelische
- en de eigentijdse filosofie, waarbij hij de overeenkomsten en verschillen bij
Spinoza laat zien.
Ik voel mij niet (al) in staat deze eigen benadering van Carriero hier samenvattend te behandelen – ik volsta met het geven van een overzicht dat een idee geeft van zijn studies. Opvallend vind ik het dat hij over Spinoza nog niet met een boek gekomen is, terwijl hij inmiddels over vele facetten van Spinoza’s filosofie heeft geschreven (zoals in een volgend blog zal blijken).
Ik voel mij niet (al) in staat deze eigen benadering van Carriero hier samenvattend te behandelen – ik volsta met het geven van een overzicht dat een idee geeft van zijn studies. Opvallend vind ik het dat hij over Spinoza nog niet met een boek gekomen is, terwijl hij inmiddels over vele facetten van Spinoza’s filosofie heeft geschreven (zoals in een volgend blog zal blijken).
John Carriero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
California, Los Angeles. He is author of Between two Worlds: a Reading of
Descartes’s “Meditations” (2009) and co-editor with Janet Broughton of A
Companion to Descartes (2008). He is especially interested in
understanding early modern rationalist thought as the outgrowth of the
seventeenth-century collision between the new science and Aristotelianism. His
essays “Spinoza on Final Causality”
(2005) and “Substance and Ends in Leibniz” (2008), are two significant
contributions to that project. [cf. aristoteliansociety & cf. philosophy.ucla.edu]
Carriero is in eerste instantie vooral
goed thuis in Descartes; hij schreef, resp. co-editeerde:
● John Peter Carriero, Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human
Understanding. Dissertation, Harvard University (1984). Reprint by Routledge / Taylor &
Francis Ltd, augustus 2016 - books.google.
Descartes has long been recognized as occupying a
pivotal position in Western philosophy. At the very center of Descartes's
innovation are his intimately related conceptions of mind and knowledge. These
twin notions ground the main problems that have continued to exercise
philosophers to this day. Indeed, his elaboration of these notions establishes
for his successors the agenda of problems to be addressed and the vocabulary
with which to address them--so much so that Spinoza, Locke, and Leibniz,
despite their very significant disagreements, have much more in common with
each other than with their medieval predecesors. This dissertation delineates
the transition Descartes effects from a prevalent medieval conception of
understanding to a modern conception of it. Through the examination of the discontinuities--and
the continuities--between Descartes's account of the understanding and that of
high scholasticism will emerge a characterization of two ways in which the
understanding is autonomous in Descartes's view. These two sorts of autonomy
shed light on the origin of a set of related concerns that give modern
philosophy its coherence, setting it apart from medieval philosophy as a
distinct tradition. A first sort of autonomy--the independence of the
understanding from the senses--creates the modern problem of skepticism with
regard to the external world, and is a necessary precondition for modern
discussions of the scope and limit of human knowledge; a second sort of
autonomy, concerning the ontological status of the mind, provides the
background against which modern discussions of the mind/body problem take shape
[ cf. philpapers
& books.google]
● John Carriero, Between
Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes’s “Meditations”. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2009 - books.google.
Carriero finds in the Meditations a nearly continuous
argument against Thomistic Aristotelian ways of thinking about cognition, and
shows more clearly than ever before how Descartes bridged the old world of
scholasticism and the new one of mechanistic naturalism. Rather than casting
Descartes's project primarily in terms of skepticism, knowledge, and certainty,
Carriero focuses on fundamental disagreements between Descartes and the
scholastics over the nature of understanding, the relation between the senses
and the intellect, the nature of the human being, and how and to what extent
God is cognized by human beings. Against this background, Carriero shows,
Descartes developed his own conceptions of mind, body, and the relation between
them, creating a coherent, philosophically rich project in the Meditations and
setting the agenda for a century of rationalist metaphysics. [cf. princeton
&
books.google]
Review door Michael Della Rocca in NDPR 2009
Review door John Cottingham in Mind, Volume 119, Issue
475, July 2010, Pages 786–789, [PDF academia.edu]
● Janet Broughton & John Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 - boek te downloaden op academia.edu
A collection of more than 30 specially commissioned
essays, this volume surveys the work of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist
commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, while integrating unique
essays detailing the context and impact of his work.
Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on the work of Descartes
Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animals
Explores the philosophical significance of his contributions to mathematics and science
Concludes with a section on the impact of Descartes's work on subsequent philosophers
Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on the work of Descartes
Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animals
Explores the philosophical significance of his contributions to mathematics and science
Concludes with a section on the impact of Descartes's work on subsequent philosophers
Tot
zover zijn werk over Descartes (de boeken althans, niet zijn artikelen). In een volgend blog geef ik een overzicht van zijn artikelen (geen boek) over Spinoza.
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