Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy
Subtitle: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521524926
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Topics in philosophy; Science/Mathematics; Science; Philosophy; Free Will & Determinism; History; Gassendi, Pierre, --1592-1655--Contributions; Gassendi, Pierre,--1592-1655--Contributions in mechanical philosophy; Philosophy / Free Will & Determinism; Science-History; Technology / General; 17th century; Contingency (Philosophy); God; History of doctrines; Providence and government of God; Will
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.