Arbib, Dan <br/><br/>
Descartes and the ambivalence of general philosophy 

 -  2020.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Cartesianism offers us a general philosophy open to two determinations: a formal determination, as the learning of judgment ( method); and a material determination, as a science of the first objects of understanding, which are indeterminate in number ( metaphysics). These two approaches have been and continue to be central to philosophy itself.