The Secretive Diffusion of the New Philosophy in the Low Countries: Evidence on the Teaching of Cartesian Philosophy from Student Notebooks 1650-1750 KU Leuven
The diffusion of Descartes’ new philosophy was a story of both success and opposition. In the Low Countries, where Descartes has settled in 1628, his dualistic and materialistic physics and metaphysics were welcomed because of their novelty, and rejected because of several incompatible views with the prevalent Aristotelian, c.q. Catholic doctrine. Yet, if this famous chapter of the history of philosophy seems to have been written already in ...