Search results for " René"
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Presa de dret internacional
2012
Xerrada sobre lleis internacionals donada en el congrés sobre lleis regionals i internacionals realitzat a València del 13 al 15 de setembre.
Elisabeth av Böhmen och Descartes
2018
I år firar prinsessan Elisabeth av Böhmen (1618-80) 400-årsjubileum. Hon var dotter till kung Fredrik V av Böhmen och Elizabeth Stuart, och växte upp i exil under 30-åriga kriget. Fadern regerade bara en vinter och hennes morbror Karl I av England avrättades 1649. Världspolitiken bildar med andra ord en relativt våldsam fond för den omfattande brevväxling Elisabeth förde med filosofen René Descartes och som idag är den främsta orsaken till hennes berömmelse. nonPeerReviewed
Elisabeth on Free Will, Preordination, and Philosophical Doubt
2021
Elisabeth is widely known as a critic of René Descartes' account of mind--body interaction and scholarly interpretations of her view on the will most often pose the question about the freedom of the will in relation to bodily impulses such as the passions. This chapter takes a different perspective and focuses on the problem of the compatibility of free will and providence, as it is discussed in a sequence of six letters that Elisabeth and Descartes wrote between September 1645 and January 1646. The chapter focuses on this specific metaphysical problem in order to ask what Elisabeth's remarks on the topic can tell about her general philosophical method as well as about her particular philos…