Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy
Subtitle: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 24, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521461047
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Will; Philosophy; Free Will & Determinism; Philosophy Of The 16th And 17th Centuries; Providence and government of God; Science; History of doctrines; Science/Mathematics; History; Gassendi, Pierre,; Contributions in mechanical philosophy; Descartes, Rene; Gassendi, Pierre; Gassendi, Pierre,--1592-1655--Contributions in mechanical philosophy; Technology / General; 17th century; 1592-1655; 1596-1650; Contingency (Philosophy); Contributions in mechanical ph; Descartes, Rene,; God
First sentence: If the development of science in Western Europe can be understood, at least in part, as resulting from the coupling of Greek ideas about rationality with biblical notions of God's power, one troublesome offspring of this union was the problem of reconciling two of God's primary attributes, his omnipotence and his omniscience.