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The provided text foregrounds a central theme: the understanding and its cognitive faculties, including sense, imagination, memory, and intellect. It explains how disputes over the scope and existence of a “pure” intellect shaped metaphysics and epistemology, contrasting rationalists and thinkers who denied distinct intellectual faculties. It also links renewed interest in skepticism and method to the proper use of cognitive equipment.","The Cambridge History ofSeventeenth-Century Philosophy  \nVolume II  \nEDITED BY  \nDANIEL GARBERUniversity of Chicago  \nMICHAEL AYERS  \nWadham College,University of Oxford  \nwith the assistance of Roger Ariew and Alan Gabbey  \nCAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITY PRESS  \nPU BLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGEThe Pitt Building,Trumpington Street,Cambridge CB2 IRP,United Kingdom  \nCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nThe Edinburgh Building,Cambridge CB22RU,United Kingdom40 West 2oth Street,New York,NY IOOII-42II,USAIo Stamford Road,Oakleigh,Melbourne 3I66,Australia  \nCambridge University Press I998  \nThis book is in copyright.Subject to statutory exceptionand to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements,no reproduction of any part may take place withoutthe written permission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published 1998  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nTypeset in Bembo  \nA catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nThe Cambridge history of seventeenth-century philosophy/edited byDaniel Garber,Michael Ayers,with the assistance of Roger Ariew and  \nAlan Gabbey.  \np.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.  \nISBN O-521-58864-2  \nI.Philosophy,Modern-I7th century.I.Garber,Daniel,I949-  \nII.Ayers,Michael,1935-  \nB8oI.C351997  \n96-25475  \nCIP  \nI90'.9'032-dc20  \nVolume I ISBN O-521-57233-9 hardback  \nAvailable only as a set:ISBN O-52I-58864-2 hardback  \nCONTENTS  \nVOLUME I  \nList of contributorspage ixPrefacexiDANIEL GARBER AND MICHAEL AYERSList of abbreviationsXVIntroductionIMICHAEL AYERS AND DANIEL GARBER  \nI The context of seventeenth-century philosophy  \nI The institutional setting9RICHARD TUCK  \n2 The intellectual setting33STEPHEN MENN  \n3 European philosophical responses to non-European culture:China87  \nD.E.MUNGELLO  \nI Logic,Language,and Abstract Objects  \n4 Logic in the seventeenth century:Preliminary remarks and theconstituents of the proposition103GABRIEL NUCHELMANS  \n5 Proposition and judgementI18GABRIEL NU CHELMANS  \n6 Deductive reasoning132GA BRIEL NU CHELMANS  \nContents  \n7 Method and the study of natureI47PETER DEAR  \n8 Universals,essences,and abstract entitiesI78M ARTHA BOLTON  \n9 Individuation2I2UDO THIEL  \nIII God  \nIo The idea of God265JEAN-LUC MARION  \nII Proofs of the existence of God305JEAN-ROBERT ARMOGATHE  \nI2 The Cartesian dialectic of creation33ITH OMAS M.LENNON  \nI3 The relation between theology and philosophy363NICHOLAS JOLLEY  \nI4 The religious background of seventeenth-century philosophy393RICHARD POPKIN  \nIV Body and the Physical World  \nIs The scholastic backgroundROGER ARIEW AND ALAN GABBEY  \n425  \n16 The occultist tradition and its criticsBRIAN COPENHAVER  \n454  \nI7 Doctrines of explanation in late scholasticism and in the mechanicalphilosophySTEVEN NADLER  \nContents  \nI8 New doctrines of body and its powers,place,and space553DANIEL GARBER,JOHN HENRY,LYNN JOY,AND ALAN GABBEY  \nI9 Knowledge of the existence of body624CHARLES McCRACKEN  \n20 New doctrines of motion649ALAN GABBEY  \n21 Laws of nature680  \nJ.R.MILTON  \n22 The mathematical realm of nature702MICHAEL MAHONEY  \nV Spirit  \n23 Soul and mind:Life and thought in the seventeenth century759DANIEL GARBER  \n24 Knowledge of the soul796CHARLES McCRACKEN  \n25 Mind-body problems833DANIEL GARBER AND MARGARET WILSON  \n26 Personal identity868UDO THIEL  \n27 The passions in metaphysics and the theory of action913SUSAN JAMES  \nVOLUME II  \nVI The Understanding  \n28 The cognitive facultiesGARY HATFIELD  \nvi  \nContents  \n29 Theories of knowledge and beliefMICHAEL AYERS  \nIO03  \n30 Ideas and objective beingMICHAEL AYERS  \nI062  \n3I Probability and evidenceLORRAINE DASTON  \nIIO8  \n32 ScepticismCHARLES LARMORE  \nII45  \nVII Will,Action,and Moral Philosophy  \n33 Determinism and human freedomII95ROBERT SLEIGH,JR.,VERE CHAPPELL,AND MICHAEL DELLAROCCA  \n34 Conceptions of moral philosophyI279JILL KRAYE  \n35 Divine/natural law theories in ethicsI3I","cbCaibKFvwAyNDJe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibKFvwAyNDJe","pdf",37603053,3,1,642,"English","en",105,"# VOLUME II\n# The Understanding\n## The cognitive faculties\n## Theories of knowledge and belief\n## Ideas and objective being\n## Probability and evidence\n## Scepticism\n## Determinism and human freedom\n## Conceptions of moral philosophy\n## Divine/natural law theories in ethics\n## Reason, the passions, and the good life","[{\"question\":\"What cognitive faculties are emphasized in the discussion of the seventeenth century?\",\"answer\":\"Sense, imagination, memory, and understanding (intellect) become the focus of argument in metaphysics and epistemology. 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