| 单词 | Cartesian |
| 例句 | All of this can be explained very well in the atomic model of the world, but only with much greater difficulty using Cartesian vortices. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The Dutch are the only significant exception: in the United Provinces the universities were teaching Cartesian philosophy by the late seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This was very much in line with the Cartesian image of the body as a machine. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Even Boyle’s vacuum pump produced ‘strange facts’ in the eyes of Aristotelians and Cartesians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The crucial dispute between Cartesians and Newtonians was over the shape of the Earth: Newton predicted an oblate ellipsoid, or flattened, Earth, while the Cartesians had predicted a prolate ellipsoid, or egg-shaped, Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thus the Cartesian distinction between mind and matter turned out to be less sharp and decisive than at first it had seemed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That is, the invisible corpuscles or atoms which, for a Cartesian, constitute light. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This suggests that it took a while for Boyle to think of the word ‘fact’ as a respectable term to be used in natural philosophy when engaging with scholastics and Cartesians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like Pythagoras, Descartes was a mathematician-philosopher; perhaps his most lasting legacy was a mathematical invention—what we now call Cartesian coordinates. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To Cartesians, Newton’s theory of gravity made no sense; but in England, where Cartesianism had never been adopted without reservations, and where arguments from design were widely accepted, resistance to the theory was much weaker. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That preparation was critical as she put the abstract three-dimensional Cartesian plane to use in the service of the space technology lectures, which were eventually compiled in written form. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Moreover, Cartesians held that the universe was a plenum: it was full. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Cartesian universe is not made for man; the Boylean universe is. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1980 in Montreal I was handed a pamphlet which rejected Newton’s account of gravity and defended a modified Cartesian account. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He used it to turn figures and shapes into equations and. numbers; with Cartesian coordinates every geometric object—squares, triangles, wavy lines—could be represented by an equation, a mathematical relationship. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the 1830s Gauss realized that each complex number—numbers that have real and imaginary parts, like 1 – 2i—can be displayed on a Cartesian grid. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The political theorist Iris Marion Young wrote that the pregnant body undermines Cartesian dualism, which constructed the male body as rational, ordered and active, and the female body as irrational, unruly and passive. Baby love: how pop stars embraced pregnancy 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z A sense of French Cartesian order thrums through the house. A French Modernist Masterpiece, Lost and Found 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z It was on one such morning—as the story goes—while dreamily watching the path of a fly flitting around on the ceiling, that he came up with the xy plane of Cartesian coordinates. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z We’re used to thinking of ourselves as Cartesian individuals: separate from nature, separate from other human forms. ‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years? 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Imprisoned within a Cartesian grid, the eye looks backward but is blind to the future. Art in Review: Martin Puryear: ‘New Sculpture’ 2012-06-07T22:49:47Z We suffer from a Cartesian dualism of mind and body, between intellect and manual competence. Made by Hand in America: A New Book Tells the Story of Unsung Artisans 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z That’s when the Cartesian notion of home and work as separate — and opposing — spheres took hold. Arianna Huffington on a Book About Working Less, Resting More 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z There is no single, definitive “stream of consciousness,” because there is no central Headquarters, no Cartesian Theater where “it all comes together” for the perusal of a Central Meaner. Science doesn’t disprove God: Where Richard Dawkins and new atheists go wrong 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z They argue earnestly about things like privilege, cultural imperialism, power structures and the male gaze; threaten to get tattoos with Adorno quotes; and drop references to “reactionary Cartesian sentimentalism” during arguments. Following a Punjabi Indian Family, a Missing Distinguished Novelist and More 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z For many philosophers, such a label indicates a resistance to reductive materialism without an acceptance of Cartesian dualism – René Descartes' view that in some respects, the mind stands separate from the body. Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary 2010-07-14T17:13:00Z Grids add to the sense that Belmar is charting some sort of territory, although he contrasts the Cartesian elements with watery shapes and three-dimensional effects. In the galleries: In ‘Gilded,’ artist Takefumi Hori applies Midas touch I’m pretty Cartesian, so I like to build my images on a solid structure. Cover Story: Pascal Campion’s “Big City” 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “From those coordinates from the drawing we’ve been able to take that into a algorithm that is then able to output it through a Cartesian graph that then produces a final image,” Meller said. Ai-Da, the humanoid robot artist, gears up for first solo exhibition 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z It’s as if Wilkin was expressing the anticipated objections of critics wedded to oppressive Cartesian reason, and Ms. Birkenmeier chose to defy her own character and double down. Review: More than the Couples Are Odd in ‘The Hollower’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z That square base is extruded nearly 1,400 feet into the air and clad in a Cartesian grid of glass and exposed concrete. How New York's rising trend of 'supertall' towers looks from the 92nd floor 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z These positions represent the coordinates of the Cartesian grid, Modernist art’s favorite armature. Art in Review: Shepard Fairey, Ishiuchi Miyako, Eric Wesley, Andy Coolquitt 2010-05-21T06:00:00Z “I’m very Cartesian. I like to break down a recipe and show how it is done,” he says. Jacques Pépin, at 86, finds a new way to express his love — of the chicken 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z We start with a standard Cartesian coordinate system. High School Statistics 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z For the following exercises, find the polar equation for the curve given as a Cartesian equation. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Therefore any point in the Cartesian plane has a slope associated with it, assuming that a solution to the differential equation passes through that point. Calculus, Vol 2 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z While there is evidence that ideas similar to Descartes’ grid system existed centuries earlier, it was Descartes who introduced the components that comprise the Cartesian coordinate system, a grid system having perpendicular axes. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to live in a place submitting to the Cartesian anxiety that the mind and the body are disconnected. Imani Perry on how the racial sins of the South belong to us all 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Today, within society and the sciences, these Cartesian views are rarely tolerated. Stop Torturing Animals in the Name of Science 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z These systems have complicated modeling equations in the Cartesian coordinate system, which make them difficult to describe and analyze. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Conversation spiralled, with users making arguments about Cartesian metaphysics and quoting Socrates. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The Cartesian coordinate system, also called the rectangular coordinate system, is based on a two-dimensional plane consisting of the x-axis and the y-axis. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Pascal’s non finito manner, with little brought to a conclusion, is not an unfortunate failure but a deliberate defiance of Cartesian system-building. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Harrington frames this outcome in the Cartesian terms of a mind-body dualism: “Brain anatomists had failed so miserably because they focused on the brain at the expense of the mind.” The Troubled History of Psychiatry 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z For the following exercises, find the Cartesian equation describing the given shapes. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Instead of using stodgy Cartesian coordinates, Black Rock City is organized along polar coordinates, making its coordinate system unique among massive fire-themed desert art festivals. Burning Man's Mathematical Underbelly 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Is it possible for a point plotted in the Cartesian coordinate system to not lie in one of the four quadrants? Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Cartesian Capital was part of a joint venture formed with Turkey’s Kurdoglu family in 2012 to ramp up Burger King’s presence in China. Tim Hortons Tests China’s Appetite for Canadian Coffee 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Hortons’ partner in its China venture - Cartesian Capital - is already involved in Burger King’s China operations. Canada's Tim Hortons to open 1,500 stores in China 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Determine the Cartesian equation describing the orbit of Pluto, the most eccentric orbit around the Sun. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z She mixes high and low fashion, Cartesian rationalism and unbridled joie de vivre, and also neutral shades. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Live Like a French Woman’ Books 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z What is a benefit of writing a system of parametric equations as a Cartesian equation? Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z He sees the start of a shift in the Cartesian view that disorders of the body ‘belong’ to physicians, whereas those of the more ‘immaterial’ mind ‘belong’ to psychiatrists. Depression: the radical theory linking it to inflammation 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z That would be a Cartesian view of animals that I think most people would not accept any more. Neuroscientist Gregory Berns: ‘Studying dogs is way more enjoyable than studying humans’ 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z When the initial points and terminal points of vectors are given in Cartesian coordinates, computations become straightforward. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Yet Descartes’s masterpiece took Europe by storm and for decades was the main textbook of the Cartesian school of science. The Dark Side of the Enlightenment 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z For the following exercises, draw the angle provided in standard position on the Cartesian plane. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z But today’s situation reminds us of the weakness of the sort of Cartesian rationalism Pinker champions and represents. Radical honesty and courage would restore community 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z In its place he sought an audience of scholars and devoted re-readers — those who devoted time to uncovering and exploring his arcane allusions to Cartesian philosophy or classical music. William H. Gass, acclaimed novelist who was ‘magician of the word,’ dies at 93 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z This section presents a natural extension of the two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate plane into three dimensions. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z It also introduces “Cartesian” sliding doors, and a roof that extends to block the rain. The REDS EV prototype is designed to help you relax in a traffic jam 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Draw the angle in standard position on the Cartesian plane. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Even in the Netherlands, the Cartesians were able to establish themselves in universities only by insisting that they, too, were entitled to keep their philosophy distinct from their theology. History: Science and the Reformation : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z I kind of like the ‘space between,’ not the Cartesian stand-alone building. Beauty beholders 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The Cartesian coordinate system provides a straightforward way to describe the location of points in space. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z The man is conversant with the tenets of Cartesian logic. New film academy president John Bailey is not as boring as you might think 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Since there are a number of polar equations that cannot be expressed clearly in Cartesian form, and vice versa, we can use the same procedures we used to convert points between the coordinate systems. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z The winning team believes its "Cartesian co-ordinate robot" design was better suited to the task than the arm-like designs of others. Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017 won by Australian budget bot - BBC News 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z She recorded them onto cassette and pitched a collaboration to her friend Moshier, who at the time was working with what she describes as an “urban chamber group” called the Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra. Who is Breadwoman? Experimental musician Anna Homler will resurrect her curious creation on Thursday 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Some surfaces, however, can be difficult to model with equations based on the Cartesian system. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z No surprise, perhaps, since the title echoes “the ghost in the machine,” a phrase deployed by Gilbert Ryle, the British philosopher, to cast aspersions on Cartesian dualism. The Controversial, American “Ghost in the Shell” 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The Cartesian or rectangular equation is plotted on the rectangular grid, and the polar equation is plotted on the polar grid. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z The axes XR, YR and ZR are the Cartesian axes of the frame that rotates with Jupiter, with XR along the Sun–Jupiter line and ZR perpendicular to Jupiter’s orbital plane. A retrograde co-orbital asteroid of Jupiter : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Terrence Deacon, an anthropologist who writes about consciousness and neuroscience, refers to “the Cartesian wound that separated mind from body at the birth of modern science.” Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z In the xy-plane, the right triangle shown in Figure 2.89 provides the key to transformation between cylindrical and Cartesian, or rectangular, coordinates. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z More recently, Manhattan’s Cartesian flatland has been proclaimed “the greatest grid.” The History Behind Manhattan's Street Grid 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z TRY IT #4 Rewrite the Cartesian equation in polar form. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z The axes XR, YR and ZR are the Cartesian axes of the frame that rotates with Jupiter, with XR along the Sun–Jupiter line and ZR perpendicular to Jupiter’s orbital plane. A retrograde co-orbital asteroid of Jupiter : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Most runners run to achieve either or both of these conditions as often as possible—to provoke a kind of Cartesian collapse, mind and body suddenly in anguished or glorious collusion. What We Think About When We Run 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z For example, the cylinder described by equation x2 + y2 = 25 in the Cartesian system can be represented by cylindrical equation r = 5. Calculus, Volume 3 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z Cartesian dualism separated the mind and body, giving the mind a place apart from the body and placing it on a pedestal. How Neuroscience Is Helping Answer the Question ‘Who Am I?’ 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z However, the equation cannot be written as a single function in Cartesian form. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Cotard's syndrome is philosophically unsettling, because it questions the axiomatic certainty of the Cartesian 'I think, therefore I am'. Neuroscience: In the blink of an I : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z But what he ultimately learned from France was a Cartesian insistence on following his beliefs to their logical conclusions, wherever they led. The neglected art of biography 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z This is not the graph of a function, and we certainly are not working in the Cartesian plane. Ravens Offensive Lineman John Urschel Explains His Mathematics Paper 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z I added that I thought the behavior spoke to something deeper, something almost Cartesian. The Secret Life of Passwords 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z TRY IT #5 Rewrite the polar equation in Cartesian form. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Termly reports in secondary schools record pupils’ marks, in Cartesian fashion, to the nearest two decimal points. Bac blues 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z For Philip Low, the Cambridge Declaration was aimed directly at the Cartesian prejudice against nonhumans. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z He ended up with things ranging from a paperback version of Noam Chomsky’s Cartesian Linguistics to a DVD of A Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves. Stephen Colbert's In-House Tech Startup Wants to Fix TV Scripts 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z In particular, he taught his dad that the first step in making a graph is to draw what's called Cartesian coordinates. How to Make a Graph (Part 2) 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z How are the polar axes different from the x- and y-axes of the Cartesian plane? Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z It is difficult to say whether Dr. Tegmark’s mathematical universe will ultimately be deemed an Einsteinian triumph or a Cartesian dead end. Books: ‘Our Mathematical Universe’: A Case for Alternate Realities 2014-04-21T21:25:54Z We make concepts like the limits and Cartesian grid much harder than they should be. What's Keeping Young People From Pursuing STEM Degrees In College? 2014-03-11T17:45:00Z In one instance, the government said, Mr. Williamson altered the Oppenheimer marketing materials and inflated the value of its largest investment — Cartesian Investors — to $9 million from $ 6 million. DealBook: S.E.C. Charges Former Oppenheimer Manager With Misleading Investors 2013-08-20T18:31:18Z Moreover, the point coordinates represented by the Cartesian paradigm became ‘world’ lines, and the infamous space-time lightcone, which you might have seen in Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, was born. The Science and Art of the Diagrams: Culturing Physics and Mathematics, Part 1 2013-03-22T12:45:00.207Z For the following exercises, convert the given polar coordinates to Cartesian coordinates. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z EEG recordings, the Cartesian cogito and the science of human consciousness: it can only be Jonathan Wilson on whether footballers know what they're really doing. The Fiver 2012-05-29T15:15:48Z Spinoza reduced the Cartesian analysis of phenomena into God, mind and matter to one phenomenon, namely, God, of whom matter and spirit, extension and thought, are but attributes. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z This method is indeed indicated at § 37, but no diagram is given, and the properties of the hodograph are investigated by means of Cartesians. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z It is convenient to use these rather than Cartesian co-ordinates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z For the following exercises, convert the given Cartesian coordinates to polar coordinates with Remember to consider the quadrant in which the given point is located. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z But the economic orthodoxy continues its romance with the Enlightenment tradition of Cartesian “universal laws.” Economists: A Profession at Sea 2012-01-19T07:00:14Z It imposed a Cartesian orderliness on the city, much as this book does on its subject matter. Bookshelf: Books on an Enduring Grid, Lost Synagogues and a 1959 Tale 2011-12-31T05:38:57Z From the serpent in the Garden of Eden to the Cartesian demon of modern skepticism, evil is always portrayed as something that simulates good in nearly all respects. Dot Earth Blog: Is Confidence in Science as a Source of Progress Based on Faith or Fact? 2011-12-23T16:04:02Z Descartes in the G�om�trie defined and considered the remarkable curves called after him the ovals of Descartes, or simply Cartesians, which will be again referred to. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z For the following exercises, convert the given Cartesian equation to a polar equation. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Cooley objects to the Cartesian postulate, which makes "cogito," "I think," the fundamental and most absolutely certain fact in the world. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z Cartesian graphs are almost always yielded by automatic recording instruments, such as the barograph, meteorograph, seismometer, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z This new generation of talking heads subscribes to a bellicose corollary of Cartesian metaphysics: I rip, therefore I am. On Football: To Rise Above the Din, Many Ex-Players Talk Trash 2011-11-02T00:38:03Z Pascal. adopted the Cartesian philosophy, and the Port Royal Logic was the most remarkable popular handbook of that school. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z For the following exercises, convert the given polar equation to a Cartesian equation. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Thus, if the power of gravity, by which heavy bodies fall to the earth, be sufficient to retain the planets in their orbits, we are authorized to reject the Cartesian Vortices. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z To construct the graph, as it is called, of such a table, Cartesian co-ordinates are usually employed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Geulincx carried out to their extreme consequences the irreconcilable elements in the Cartesian metaphysics, and his works have the peculiar value attaching to the vigorous development of a one-sided principle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z Hence if we take, as coordinates on the surface, the Cartesian coordinates of corresponding points on the plane, the geodesics must have linear equations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Describe the three types of symmetry in polar graphs, and compare them to the symmetry of the Cartesian plane. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z The Cocceian and Cartesian Controversies.—If not the founder, certainly the most distinguished representative in the Netherlands of that scholasticism which sought to expound and defend orthodoxy, was Voetius, who died a.d. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z All modern philosophy, therefore, whether it arise from the Baconian or the Cartesian point of view, bears upon it the broad outline of the analytic method. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Newton had at first accepted the Cartesian system of celestial vortices of aether that swirled the planets and comets around their orbits. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z Straight lines and conics are represented in trilinear and in areal, because in Cartesian, coordinates by equations of the first and second degrees respectively, and these degrees are preserved when the equations are made homogeneous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z We have also examined notation for vectors drawn specifically in the Cartesian coordinate plane using For any of these vectors, we can calculate the magnitude. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z The second part is entirely Cartesian in method, in the order and sequence of the proofs. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Like a good Cartesian he conceived of the state as an immense machine, every portion of which should receive its impulse from outside—that is from him, Colbert. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The magic influence of a congenial heart soon drew the Regency-Councillor Flamin into their Cartesian vortex; they had hardly been there eight days, when they had held with him a club at the Chaplain's. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z If the coordinates are Cartesian and l, m, n are direction cosines, the quantity on the left is the mutual moment of the two lines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z We will find the relationships between and on the Cartesian plane with and on the new rotated plane. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z The Cartesian philosophy, in spite of its profound originality, and its wholly French character, is full of the Platonic spirit. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The market was a form of “spontaneous order,” which was far superior to planned societies based on the hubris of Cartesian rationalism. Friedrich A. Hayek, Big-Government Skeptic 2011-05-06T22:30:40Z Pascal's Philosophy.—In the first place, the Thoughts voice a reaction against the "Cartesian intellectualism" which was then the prevalent tendency in scientific and philosophical circles. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z The form of it originated by Descartes, and thence known as Cartesian, will alone be considered in much detail. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z However, there are various methods we can use to rewrite a set of parametric equations as a Cartesian equation. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z He himself preferred the Cartesian explanation as the simplest and most convenient of all, "though it should be held merely as an hypothesis and not as in absolute agreement with the truth." The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe 2011-04-03T02:00:15.847Z By no means; Locke was quite right in rejecting the Cartesian claim to intuitions which were supposed to yield up all knowledge of things by “mathematical,” i.e. deductive, a priori reasoning. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z In contrast to Pierre L’Enfant’s grandiose national capital, the street commissioners adopted what Reuben Skye Rose-Redwood, a geographer and expert on the grid, described as “a physical representation of the Cartesian coordinate system.” 200th Birthday for the Map That Made New York 2011-03-21T00:25:00Z Doubtless they did, and the Cartesians even believed, though Leibnitz did not, that it is the only such cause. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z Why are there many sets of parametric equations to represent on Cartesian function? Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z This great work may be considered as a dictionary of the Cartesian philosophy, and was very much used by Brucker and other earlier historians of philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z So that after all, different as matter and spirit undoubtedly are, the difference between them is by no means that sort of Cartesian chasm which human thought must for ever fail to bridge. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z The first is, Lee makes one of his Persons a Cartesian Philosopher, 2 or 3000 Years before Descartes was born: Why did not the Critick remember this too in the same Tragedy Oedipus? An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z In a nutshell, and not to get too Cartesian, but the brain has replaced the mind. Low-Tech Treatment May Be Best for Addiction 2010-03-05T18:31:00Z For the following exercises, eliminate the parameter to rewrite the parametric equation as a Cartesian equation. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z He had many disciples, and these disciples uncovered much in the Cartesian philosophy that Descartes himself failed to see, or saw only imperfectly. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker This reasoning, in which Anselm partially anticipated the Cartesian philosophers, has rarely seemed satisfactory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" I do not mean to identify the epistemological situation with the Cartesian disjunction. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Carry light within that darkness, and the darkness will disappear: the pagan needs neither the thesis of the Cartesians, nor the requisitory of the Lamennaisians: all he wants is instruction. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 For the following exercises, rewrite the parametric equation as a Cartesian equation by building an table. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z From this time the question became the playing ground of the Cartesian and other philosophers. Custom and Myth New Edition When the refracting curve is a circle and the rays emanate from any point, the locus of the secondary caustic is a Cartesian oval, and the evolute of this curve is the required diacaustic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Danger appears when the logician attains Cartesian intoxication with the beauty of logico-mathematical form and tries to infer from the form itself the real nature of the formed material. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The one-sided assertion of individuality and difference in the schools of Locke and Leibnitz was the natural complement of the one-sided assertion of universality and unity in the Cartesian school. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" What is one difference in point-plotting parametric equations compared to Cartesian equations? Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z In that case, however, the Cartesian idealism had a tendency to pass into mysticism. A Short History of French Literature There can be little doubt that Newton himself aimed his rule at the Cartesian hypothesis of Vortices. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The system of Rohault was founded entirely upon Cartesian principles, and was previously known only through the medium of a rude Latin version. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" But it would not be difficult to show that the adoption of such a conception involves the rejection or modification of almost every doctrine of the Cartesian system. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" For the following exercises, convert the given Cartesian equation to a polar equation. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z A Thomist or a Cartesian seemed to him as a captive, or a one-armed combatant. The History of Freedom "The stupid Cartesians," Spinoza wrote Oldenburg "being suspected of favoring me, endeavored to remove the aspersion by abusing every where my opinions and writings, a course which they still pursue." The Philosophy of Spinoza After travelling in France and England, he studied the Cartesian philosophy under John Raey at Leiden. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" It may be true that Malebranche and Spinoza were prepared, the former by the study of Augustine, the latter by the study of Jewish philosophy, to draw from Cartesian principles consequences which Descartes never anticipated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" For the following exercises, convert the given polar equation to a Cartesian equation. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z So, the Cartesians, and even Leibnitz, argued, that nothing physical but previous motion could account for motion, explaining the human body's voluntary motions by Nervous Vibrations or by Animal Spirits. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic The Cartesian School.—The philosophy of Descartes fought its first battles and gained its first triumphs in the country of his adoption. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Analytically, the Cartesian equation to a coaxal system can be written in the form x� + y� + 2ax � k� = 0, where a varies from member to member, while k is a constant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The general approval of the Cartesian school proved that this was a legitimate development of doctrine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Convert the polar equation to a Cartesian equation: Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Even Newton imagined the existence of a subtle ether between the sun and bodies on which it acts, because, like his rivals the Cartesians, he could not conceive a body acting where it is not. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic There the Cartesian innovations had found a patron in Adrian Heerebord, and were openly discussed in theses and lectures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The philosophy of Wolff was an offshoot directly from Leibnitz, indirectly from the Cartesian school. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The proof of God’s existence is therefore the hinge on which the whole Cartesian philosophy turns, and it is necessary to examine the nature of it somewhat closely. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Eliminate the parameter to rewrite the following parametric equations as a Cartesian equation: Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z More plainly fails to understand the basic dualism inherent in Cartesian philosophy and to sense the irrelevance of his questions. Democritus Platonissans Fortunately the Cartesian method had already done its service, even where the theories were rejected. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The Cartesian philosophy is founded on two great principles, the one metaphysical, the other physical. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The development of the Cartesian school was soon to show what is the necessary and inevitable end of such worship of the unknown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" These two numbers are then the "Cartesian co-ordinates" of this corner with reference to the "Cartesian co-ordinate system" which is determined by the arrangement of little rods. Relativity: The Special and General Theory More’s original enthusiasm for Descartes declined as he understood better that the Cartesian world in practice excluded spirits and souls. Democritus Platonissans The contempt of aesthetics and erudition is characteristic of the most typical members of what is known as the Cartesian school, especially Malebranche. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The fact remains that innate ideas form the necessary groundwork of the Cartesian doctrine.... Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Adopting the Cartesian opposition of mind and matter, he does not see, any more than Descartes, that in their opposition they are correlative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Here the Gaussian coordinates are simply Cartesian ones. Relativity: The Special and General Theory Steeped in Platonic and neo-Platonic thought, and determined iii to reconcile Spirit with the rational mind of man, More thought he had discovered in Cartesian ‘intuition’ what was not necessarily there. Democritus Platonissans In 1639 he published a series of arguments against atheism, in which the Cartesian views were not obscurely indicated as perilous for the faith, though no name was mentioned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The Cartesian maxim, cogito ergo sum, has perpetuated this error, and the modern philosophy of the ego and non-ego has prevented its detection. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion The truth of this view we need not dispute; the question is as to its consistency with Cartesian principles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" As plainly, therefore, as the one is true, must the other be false, and Cartesian idealism, in so far as its character has been exhibited above, has, I submit, been demonstrated to be true. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications In the preface to his poem, he refers to Descartes whom he seems to have read hopefully: surely “infinitude” is the same as the Cartesian “indefinite.” Democritus Platonissans In the judgment of D’Alembert the Cartesian theory was the best that the observations of the age admitted; and “its explanation of gravity was one of the most ingenious hypotheses which philosophy ever imagined.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Lamont is not unhappy: he keeps his mind active by solving stiff quadratic equations and fiddling with Cartesian co-ordinates. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland But to understand fully Malebranche’s view of freedom and the ethical system connected with it, we must notice an important alteration which he makes in the Cartesian theory of the relation of will and intelligence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" And whether this Ph�nomenon may be solved, either by the Cartesian, or Epicurean Hypothesis? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World Cambridge rapidly became Newtonian, but Oxford remained Cartesian for fifty years or more. Pioneers of Science He is the author of several works, amongst others a system of Cartesian philosophy, where a chapter on “Angels” revives the methods of the schoolmen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" It was not for want of experience that the Cartesians were unable to conceive that one body could produce motion in another without contact. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive In Locke's philosophy, the 'ideas,' legitimate or illegitimate descendants of the Cartesian theories, play a most prominent part. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. The stamp of Cartesian clearness is upon it, but without the logic, the precision, the thoroughness of French thought. Lectures on the French Revolution He is the author of the Cartesian system of algebraic or analytic geometry, which has been so powerful an engine of research, far easier to wield than the old synthetic geometry. Pioneers of Science From the real or fancied rapprochements between Cartesianism and Jansenism, it became for a while impolitic, if not dangerous, to avow too loudly a preference for Cartesian theories. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" It may not be without some application to the modern no less than the original Cartesian doctrine. Pascal One characteristic of the Cartesian school is obvious. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. But if we leave out of the two doctrines what breathes life into them, if we retain the skeleton only, we have before us the very picture of Platonism and Aristotelianism seen through Cartesian mechanism. Creative Evolution In the Cartesian system the cause of motion was pressure within a plenum. The Approach to Philosophy And before 1725, readings, both public and private, were given from Cartesian texts in some of the Parisian colleges. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" “He could not bear,” his niece tells us, in a passage often quoted and emphasised, “the Cartesian manner of explaining the formation of all things.” Pascal But Berkeley, alarmed by the tendency of the Cartesian doctrines to materialism and mechanical necessity, reduces the 'primary' to the level of the 'secondary,' and proceeds to abolish the whole world of matter. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. He brought back into philosophy—while modifying it and carrying it on to another plane—that essential element of the philosophy of Descartes which had been abandoned by the Cartesians. Creative Evolution The realm of perception, wherein the mind is subjected to the body, embarrasses the Cartesian system, and has no clear title to any place in it. The Approach to Philosophy In Germany a few Cartesian lecturers taught at Leipzig and Halle, but the system took no root, any more than in Switzerland, where it had a brief reign at Geneva after 1669. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Within a dozen years after the philosopher's death, the Cartesian philosophy was prohibited by ecclesiastical authorities and excluded from the schools. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 In true Cartesian fashion, he demonstrates why this Light must have its locus within the soul and not in some external means or medium. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries The Cartesian philosophy viewed historical studies with haughty indifference. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. It is not the splendid development of some uprising philosophy, as the Cartesian or Platonic. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin The cardinal de Retz in his leisurely age at Commercy found amusement in presiding at disputations between the more moderate Cartesians and Don Robert Desgabets, who interpreted Descartes in an original way of his own. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" For relief from this violent hypothesis, Leibnitz modified the Cartesian philosophy by his famous theory of a pre-established harmony. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 He uses also the Cartesian argument that there must at least be as much reality in the cause as there is in the effect, p. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries The H�tel de Rambouillet was closed; the new tribe of pr�cieuses had learnt the Cartesian philosophy, affected the sciences, were patronesses of physics, astronomy, anatomy. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. To perfect himself in Latin, he began a study of Descartes' "Meditations," and this led to proving the Cartesian philosophy by a geometrical formula. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 The great argument on which the Cartesians founded their opposition to the Newtonian doctrine was that attraction was an occult quality, not wholly intelligible by the aid of mere mechanics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" One of Turgot's masters, Sigorgne, was the first to teach in the university the Newtonian principles of astronomy, instead of the Cartesian hypothesis of vortices. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot Certain propositions of great difficulty enable us to deduce quite easily the Cartesian equations to the evolutes of the three conics. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Cartesian metaphysics found another antagonist in the English materialist Hobbes. Selected Essays The Cartesian philosophy swings around the proposition that only through universal doubt can we at last reach truth. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Though no longer quite the Cartesian dualism, this is still a dualism. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Why, he asks, do you replunge us into the night of hypotheses, justifying the Cartesians and their three elements and their vortices? Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot The space between the planets was divided off into definite points in a series of Cartesian co-ordinates, the sun being the origin, and the plane of the elliptic being the X-Y plane. The Black Star Passes Just as Cartesian materialism branches into natural science, so the other tendency of French materialism merges directly into socialism and communism. Selected Essays It has been truthfully said of him in proof of his inconsistency, that he was a free thinker at London, a Cartesian at Versailles, a Christian at Nancy, and an infidel at Berlin. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Such omissions are confined, indeed, to single sentences or paragraphs, with only the exception of a somewhat technical discussion of the Cartesian philosophy in Chapter XVII. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research He and his successors have always assumed that it was impossible for the principle of gravity to be true, and a Cartesian plenum also; consequently, the question has not been fairly treated. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence The Cartesian system of reasoning, which begins by calling in question every thing, and which refuses to believe anything without formal proof, is essentially vicious. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story The writings of Lamettrie exhibit the union of Cartesian and English materialism. Selected Essays A book, issued anonymously by a friend of Spinoza, applying a little more logic to the Cartesian idea of substance, caused him to obtain additional ground. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Maybe we still have a few Cartesians in France; that is solely because Descartes' system is a tissue of erroneous and ridiculous imaginings. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary Robinson despised the old-fashioned Ethics and Physics, but with the new Cartesian or Experimental Philosophy he was inter primos. Andrew Marvell There are, furthermore, modern Cartesians who claim that God is the sole agent, of whom created beings are only the purely passive organs; and M. Bayle builds not a little upon that idea. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Cartesian materialism exists in France even to this day. Selected Essays No, because your sonnet on Cartesian geometry roused even the math-fiend to compassion. The House of the Vampire It is not that Cartesian or Platonic, or even mystic opinions, are irreconcileable with Locke's philosophy. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Now, it will be obvious to you, that the only one of these three propositions which can stand the Cartesian test of certainty is the second. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews The Cartesians, after the example of their master, employ in order to prove it a principle which is not conclusive enough. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil For it is clear, that if the ether is admitted to be a continuous material substance, Democritic atomism is at an end and Cartesian continuity takes its place. The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century The further we penetrate into the knowledge of natural phenomena, the clearer and the more developed becomes the bold Cartesian conception regarding the mechanism of the universe. The New Physics and Its Evolution He might have added that one of the most powerful of his contemporaries, Montesquieu himself, remained a rigid Cartesian to the end of his days. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) But it is beside my purpose to dwell upon the minor peculiarities of the Cartesian philosophy. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews I have already indicated elsewhere why I am not in agreement with our Cartesians on that point. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil He made many disciples, who openly or secretly became "Cartesians." History of Holland This methodical or theoretical Cartesian doubt, this philosophical doubt excogitated in a stove, is not the doubt, is not the scepticism, is not the incertitude, that I am talking about here. Tragic Sense Of Life From this time the question became the playing ground of the Cartesian and other philosophers. Custom and Myth Do not you see the tormentors of St. Domingo, avail themselves of it already, redoubling their strokes, and regarding their slaves as mere machines, like the Cartesians do the brutes? The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Divers of them held the opinion that the Cartesians, in confuting the anonymous philosopher, had conceded too much to philosophy. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil An unprejudiced consideration of the principles upon which our nineteenth-century society is founded proves their Cartesian character, very different already from modern philosophy. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Newton had first accepted the Cartesian system of celestial vortices of aether that swirled the planets and comets around their orbits. Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. Whereas Hobbes had in Paris imbibed the spirit of the Galilean and Cartesian inquiry, while Bacon, Locke, and even Hume had also visited France with advantage, now French thinkers take the watchword from the English. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The old Cartesian formula—"I think, therefore I am"—would come nearer to expressing a truth, were it reversed—"I am, therefore I think." Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise As this system was not known formerly, other ways were sought for emerging from this labyrinth, and the Cartesians themselves were in difficulties over the subject of free will. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil With far greater philosophical vigour, Leibnitz in Germany opened the door to that crowd of psychic facts which Cartesian intellectualism had rejected with horror. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic MALEBRANCHE.—A separate niche must be made for the Cartesians, almost as great as Descartes, who filled the seventeenth century with their renown,—the Frenchman Malebranche, the Dutchman Spinoza, and the German Leibnitz. Initiation into Philosophy By the law of the conservation of force, Leibnitz corrects the Cartesian doctrine of the conservation of motion, and approaches the point of view of the present day. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Peripatetic, when the learned had, with Descartes, renounced the philosophy of Aristotle, it became Cartesian, when they were Newtonians. Paris as It Was and as It Is So far as he had a philosophical opinion, he was a Cartesian; in theology he was an orthodox Calvinist. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil A complete change of the Cartesian system, upon which Leibnitz based his own, was necessary, if speculation were ever to surpass the Leibnitzian aesthetic. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic With his 'semi'-Cartesian, 'semi'-Platonic, 'semi'-Christian notions, Henry More makes a sad jumble in his assertion of chronochorhistorical Christianity. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Cartesians are right when they make the concept of substance the cardinal point in metaphysics and explain it by the concept of independence. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The Cartesian form of it is the most glaringly fallacious, and indeed exposes itself; for by that reasoning we might prove the existence of a fiery dragon or any other phantom of the brain. The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham M. Bayle makes elsewhere an objection which is peculiar to him, which he derives from the opinions of the modern Cartesians. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil This faith can hardly fail to conquer among the races pledged to the Cartesian dualism, who call the incomprehensible clear, and abhor what is profound. Amiel's Journal If muscle can contract without nerve, there is an end of the Cartesian mechanical explanation of its contraction by the influx of animal spirits. Science & Education This combines the Baconian ideal of the extension of knowledge with the Cartesian ideal of certainty in knowledge. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Using fractals and their equations, we can now represent and work with objects from the natural world that defy Cartesian analysis. Open Source Democracy Notwithstanding, most of the Cartesians contented themselves with this, albeit the inward experience they adduce does not prove their assertion, as M. Bayle has clearly shown. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Everywhere one sees the Cartesian dualism and a striking want of the genetic, historical, and critical sense. Amiel's Journal Nor will 'the successive application of the parts of the superficies of one body to those of another,' which the Cartesians give us, prove a much better definition of motion, when well examined. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 The Cartesian theory of the passions forms the bridge over which its author passes from psychology to ethics. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The essence, in short, of the Coleridgian ontology consists in the alteration of a single though a very important word in the well-known Cartesian formula. English Men of Letters: Coleridge Beasts are not free, and yet all the same they have active souls, unless one assume, with the Cartesians, that they are mere machines. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Newton had first believed in the Cartesian system of celestial vortices of aether than swirled the planets and comets around their orbits. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III On the other hand, the philosophical tenet of the Cartesians, which denied a mind to the brutes, resulted in no little cruelty. A Handbook of Ethical Theory The latter of these two wrote a Criticism of the Cartesian Philosophy, 1689, besides a Treatise on the Impotence of the Human Mind, which did not appear until after his death. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Be another: not thyself, but a Platonist; not a soul, but a Christian; not a naturalist, but a Cartesian; not a poet, but a Shakspearian. Representative Men We may therefore reject M. Leibniz's hypothesis as being impossible, since it is liable to greater difficulties than that of the Cartesians, which makes beasts to be mere machines. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil I was pleased with the Cartesian opinion, that the idea of God is distinguished from all other ideas by involving its reality; but I was not wholly satisfied. Biographia Literaria It is worth while to follow up the above reference to the Cartesians by a reference to St. Augustine. A Handbook of Ethical Theory The Cartesian school, as a whole, however, exhibits a tendency toward mysticism, which was concealed to a greater or less extent by the rationalistic need for clear concepts, but never entirely suppressed. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time The method of Cartesian coordinates must then be discarded, and replaced by another which does not assume the validity of Euclidean geometry for rigid bodies.* Relativity : the Special and General Theory Nor do I believe that it is more difficult for M. Leibniz than for the Cartesians or other philosophers, to free himself from the objection of a fatal mechanism which destroys human liberty. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil For he attempted to extend the Cartesian theory to social facts. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth In the other camp, among the Cartesians, about to disappear, Fontenelle is an excellent mathematician, the competent biographer of all eminent men of science, the official secretary and true representative of the Academy of Sciences. The Ancient Regime As the Cartesians maintained, it must have ideas as soon as it begins to be, which is manifestly contrary to experience. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time These two numbers are then the " Cartesian co-ordinates " of this corner with reference to the " Cartesian co-ordinate system" which is determined by the arrangement of little rods. Relativity : the Special and General Theory The modern doctrine of psychophysical parallelism is not appreciably different from this theory of the Cartesian school. The Analysis of Mind He was brought up on Cartesian principles, and he idealised Descartes somewhat as Lucretius idealised Epicurus. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Visual representations-other forms of writing-are closer to what they report about: the Cartesian coordinates for space, the clock for a cyclical perception of time, etc. The Civilization of Illiteracy In this distinction between sensation and reflection, we may recognize an after-effect of the Cartesian dualism between matter and spirit. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time A Cartesian declares that light exists in the air; but a Newtonian asserts that it comes from the sun in six minutes and a half. Letters on England But do tell me, how can a man be a Cartesian? We Two, a novel We might almost call it the Cartesian period for, though Descartes was dead, it was in these years that Cartesianism performed its task and transformed human thought. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Descartes was the originator of a theory of the movements of the universe by a mechanical process—the Cartesian theory of vortices—which for several decades after its promulgation reigned supreme in science. A History of Science — Volume 2 We shall find the later development of philosophy starting from the Cartesian dualism. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time This is the cause of gravity, according to the Cartesian system. Letters on England They seemed to get deeply interested in a dispute as to whether Spinoza was or was not at any time in his life a Cartesian. We Two, a novel The secret poison, of which Fontenelle prepared this remarkable dose with a touch which reminds us of Voltaire, was being administered in the same Cartesian period, and with similar precautions, by Bayle. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth It would be even more absurd to attribute to them a Cartesian dualism. Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought We now pass to the Cartesian anthropology, with its three chief objects: the body, the soul, and the union of the two. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time From the standpoint of the Cartesian problem, which he solves in a sense opposite to Descartes, Locke supplements the empiricism of Bacon by basing it on a psychologically developed theory of knowledge. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time And of all these rebels against ruling prejudices he probably did more than any single man to exhibit the consequences of the Cartesian ideas and drive them home. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Trained in the principles of Descartes, he was one of those who, though like Descartes himself, too critical to swear by a master, appreciated unreservedly the value of the Cartesian method. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth The preponderant influence of Jansenism only began to wane during the last twenty years of the seventeenth century, and till then it seems to have been successful in counteracting the diffusion of the Cartesian ideas. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth This is the meaning of the Cartesian doubt, which is more comprehensive and more thorough than the Baconian. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time And Fontenelle offers what he regards as a formal Cartesian proof of the permanence of natural forces. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth It was in the atmosphere of the Cartesian spirit that a theory of Progress was to take shape. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth But his a priori proof is simply a statement of the Cartesian principle of the stability of natural processes, which he put in a thoroughly unscientific form. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth It was to be developed by men who were imbued with the Cartesian spirit. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth His guiding stars are rather the great mathematicians of the Continent, Kepler and Galileo, while Cartesian influences also are not to be denied. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Pascal, who till 1654 was a man of science and a convert to Cartesian ideas, put it in a striking way. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Yet it was probably the influence of the great spiritual force of Jansenism that did most to check the immediate spread of Cartesian ideas. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth He had no notion of their depth and complexity, and he lightly essayed them, treating human nature, as if it were an abstraction, by a method which he would doubtless have described as Cartesian. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth It was a free adaptation of an unreadable Latin treatise by a Dutchman, which in Fontenelle's skilful hands becomes a vehicle for applying Cartesian solvents to theological authority. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth Cartesian elements in Boyle are the start from doubt, the derivation of all motion from pressure and impact, and the extension of the mechanical explanation to the organic world. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time It meant the enthronement of reason—Cartesian reason—before whose severe tribunal history as well as opinions were tried. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth A geometer and a Cartesian, he took part in the controversy in its latest stage, when La Motte and Madame Dacier were the principal antagonists. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth The Cartesian mechanical theory of the world and the doctrine of invariable law, carried to a logical conclusion, excluded the doctrine of Providence. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth The growth of the "universal human reason"—a Cartesian phrase, which had figured in the philosophy of Malebranche—must assure a happy destiny to humanity. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth His thought is controlled by the endeavor to combine Cartesian metaphysics and Augustinian Christianity, those two great forces which constituted the double citadel of his order. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time But he had grown up in the same intellectual climate in which that idea was produced; he had been nurtured both on the dissolving, dialectic of Bayle, and on the Cartesian enunciation of natural law. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth |
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