Description: This book offers a novel and comprehensive interpretation of Descartes’s moral philosophy. In contrast to other influential interpretations, the book argues that the central tenet of his ethical thought is that each person ought to live in the way that is most conducive to their degree of overall perfection. While Descartes’s ethical thought has attracted only a very modest amount of attention among scholars, this book demonstrates that it constitutes an important and integral component of his philosophical project as a whole. It argues that Descartes’s ethics constitutes a form of moral perfectionism. In the Cartesian picture, we satisfy this requirement of perfection by using our free will well in all our conduct, something which is also necessary for obtaining happiness for ourselves. To be guaranteed happiness, however, we need to acquire the virtue of generosity, which, besides a habit of using one’s free will well, entails a habit of being attentive in one’s thought to various truths about oneself and about the world we live in. Descartes offers an interesting attempt to make living well depend entirely on ourselves and not on fate or fortune. He also leaves room for the presence of passions within such a life and for acknowledging that even fully virtuous persons’ lives may differ in their degrees of overall perfection. Descartes’s Moral Perfectionism will appeal to scholars and graduate students working on Descartes, the history of early modern philosophy, and the history of ethics.
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Original Language: Fre,Eng
Book Title: Descartes's Moral Perfectionism
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, History & Surveys / Modern
Genre: Philosophy
Author: Frans Svensson
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy Ser.
Format: Hardcover
