Arnold Geulincx’s Ethics and the Legacy of Cartesianism and Scholasticism KU Leuven
This dissertation argues that the views of the unorthodox Flemish philosopher Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) regarding the powerlessness of the human mind – in both the physical world and even in itself – were more complex and more influential than is usually recognised. It shows that those views gave birth a lively, if short-lived, tradition, which has up to this point been almost entirely unexplored.
Geulincx is perhaps best ...