Descartes as Catholic Philosopher and Natural Philosopher

Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 89:287-298 (2015)
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A Catholic philosophy requires an account of God as the first cause of all being. Descartes provides this, but he does so at a high price, for his Creator of ontologically and causally independent moments of creaturely existence precludes all secondary causes. Descartes’s philosophy thus results in occasionalism, which I try to show is the unhappy result of errors in natural philosophy concerning material forms and duration. Suarez provides a contrasting scholastic account of creation, showing how novel, and problematic, Descartes’s position is.

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10.5840/acpaproc2016113051

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