Titlebook: Reforming the Art of Living; Nature, Virtue, and Rico Vitz Book 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 Rene Descartes.car

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Morality as a Cosmopolitan Art,tan art of natural beatitude, and I explain why his account of morality is not a science and is only problematically regarded as Stoic. Second, I show how Descartes intends this art to be applied, explaining how he tries to advance beyond the theories of the ancient moralists by developing both an a

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Virtue, Volition, and Judgment,cartes’s account of virtuous judgment requires a commitment to doxastic voluntarism, but doxastic voluntarism is false; therefore, Descartes’s account of virtuous judgment is false. My response to this challenge is twofold. First, I clarify the kind of doxastic voluntarism to which Descartes’s is co

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Conclusion,scartes’s account of virtuous belief formation. Second, I have clarified the pragmatic and social nature of Descartes’s philosophical program, by showing how his account of virtuous belief formation is subversive of traditional Christianity and, by implication, of those traditional forms of religion

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The Cartesian Framework,ntext and limits, and (3) that it consists of a normative method with a distinctive focus on virtues by which people should be able not only to unmask the beauty of the sciences but also to raise their natures to a higher degree of perfection.

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Morality as a Cosmopolitan Art,cartes’s attempts to provide his readers with the principal truths necessary to facilitate their development from having merely the passion of generosity to possessing the virtue of wisdom, in its highest degree, and, consequently, to enjoying natural beatitude.

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Natural Beatitude and Religious Reform,timately unsuccessful with respect to his aim to reform science, it is significant with respect to his aim to reform both traditional Christianity, in particular, and traditional religion, in general.

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Introduction,sive of traditional Christianity—and, by implication, of those traditional forms of religion with similar philosophical commitments—both in theory and in practice. In this introductory chapter, I motivate the project and provide an overview of the argument I will develop in the chapters that follow.