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title	:	Descartes Among the Scholastics Aquinas Lecture ; 1991
author	:	Grene, Marjorie Glicksman.
publisher	:	Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0874621585
print isbn13	:	9780874621587
ebook isbn13	:	9780585141411
language	:	English
subject	Descartes, Ren,--1596-1650, Scholasticism.
publication date	:	1991
lcc	:	B1873.G74 1991eb
ddc	:	189.77
subject	:	Descartes, Ren,--1596-1650, Scholasticism.

Page iii The Aquinas Lecture, 1991 Descartes Among the Scholastics Under the Auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau by Marjorie Grene Marquette University Press Milwaukee 1991

Page iv Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 90-64234. Copyright 1991 Marquette University Press ISBN 0-87462-158-5.

Page v Prefatory The Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. The 1991 Aquinas Lecture, Descartes Among the Scholastics, was delivered in the Tony and Lucille Weasler Auditorium on Sunday, February 24, 1991, by Marjorie G. Grene, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, and Honorary Distinguished Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Professor Grene was born in Milwaukee and received her B.A. from Wellesley College. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Radcliffe College, Harvard University. After beginning her teaching career at Monticello College, Marjorie Grene went on to teach at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Manchester, the University of Leeds, and Queen's University, Belfast. She has been Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, Boston University, the University of Gttingen, Tulane University, Temple University, Rutgers University, the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, the University of Waterloo, Boston University, Vassar College, Rochester

Page vi Institute of Technology, Carleton College, the State University of New York at Binghamton, and Senior Research Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. She was professor at the University of California, Davis, from 1965 to 1978. Professor Grene was Virginia Gildersleeve Visiting Professor at Barnard College, 1987. She received an honorary doctorate from Tulane in 1980. She has served as President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in 1971-1972 and of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1975-1976. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1976 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1977. Among her books are: Dreadful Freedom: A Critique of Existentialism (1948; reissued, 1959 and 1984), Heidegger (1957), A Portrait of Aristotle (1963; reissued, 1967 and 1979), The Knower and the Known (1966, 1974, 1983), Approaches to a Philosophical Biology (1969), Sartre (1973; reprinted, 1983), The Understanding of Nature: Essays in Philosophy of Biology (1974), Philosophy In and Out of Europe (1976, reprinted 1987), and Descartes (1985). She has also edited eight books and published over eighty articles. To Professor Grene's distinguished list of publications, Phi Sigma Tau is pleased to add: Descartes Among the Scholastics.

Page vii Acknowledgements The part of this lecture that deals with substantial forms was given in a somewhat different form, and different language, as a lecture at the University of Bern and published in Dialectica under the title "Die Einheit des Menschen: Descartes unter den Scholastikern." I am grateful to the Editor of Dialectica for his kind permission to use the material here. I must also acknowledge my indebtedness to Roger Ariew for many conversations on the subject matter of this lecture and for supplying material I might not otherwise have noticed. I have learned a great deal even from my disagreements with him. Father Roland Teske has corrected some of my historical errors, and I would like to thank him for his help. Needless to say, I am most of all grateful to Marquette University for giving me the occasion to pursue a little further the all but inexhaustible topic of the scholastic context of Cartesian philosophy. M.G.

Page 1 Descartes Among the Scholastics On ne peut comprendre le cartsianisme sans le confronter continuellement avec cette scolastique qu'il ddaigne, mais au sein du laquelle il s'installe et dont, puisqu'il l'assimile, on peut bien dire qu'il se nourrit. E. Gilson, "Anthropologie Thomiste et Anthropologie Cartsienne," in Etudes sur le Rle de la Pense Mdivale dans la Formation du Systme Cartsien, Paris: Vrin, 1975 (1st ed., 1930), pp. 245-255, p. 255. The above epigram may serve as a text for my lecture. Although its Gallic rhetoric cannot easily be Englished, its theme is clear. We cannot understand the Cartesian philosophy unless we constantly confront it with the scholasticism it disdains so far, so good. But at the same time, Gilson argues, Cartesian thought makes its home within scholasticism, assimilates it and so is nourished by it. Throughout his long and fruitful career, that was the thesis of Gilson's Cartesian scholarship, from his dissertation on freedom in

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