He's a bit of a Cartesian because he knows Descartes, they were friends, and he has understood what was new in Cartesianism, the rational mind. |
He thus destroyed the contradictory and confusing dualism in Cartesianism and established mechanical empiricism. |
He sticks to Cartesianism with a passion and derides any attempt to derive music from experience. |
But this is entirely different from the sort of justification demanded by Cartesianism. |
Futhermore, such knowledge could be obtained without the need for a divine guarantee, as had been required by orthodox Cartesianism. |
The new Cartesianism of cognitive science and biological anthropology provide some contemporary exemplars. |