笛卡尔永恒真理的存在意义与偶然必然性

IF 0.1 4区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2019-06-25 DOI:10.5840/IPQ2019624134

Jeremy W. Skrzypek

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摘要

笛卡尔著名地指出，上帝本可以创造任何和所有现在存在的“永恒真理”（例如1 + 2. = 3） false。这导致学者们将笛卡尔的上帝归因于一种激进的力量：做逻辑上不可能的事情的力量。虽然笛卡尔确实声称上帝可以使现在存在的任何永恒真理都是假的，但我不认为这让他相信上帝可以使二次四等于九，或者任何类似的东西。在这篇论文中，我展示了通过将笛卡尔的永恒真理学说放在适当的历史背景下，对这一学说有了新的、更为慈善的解释。根据这种解释，笛卡尔的上帝可能会选择不创造这些真理所指的永恒本质，从而使永恒真理变得虚假。

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Existential Import and the Contingent Necessity of Descartes’s Eternal Truths

Descartes famously states that God could have made any and all of the “eternal truths” that are now in place (such as 1 + 2 = 3) false. This has led scholars to attribute to Descartes’s God a radical sort of power: the power to do the logically impossible. While Descartes does claim that God could have made any of the eternal truths that are now in place false, I do not think that this commits him to the view that God could have made twice four equal to nine, or anything of that sort. In this paper I show how, by placing Descartes’s doctrine of the eternal truths in its proper historical context, a new and more charitable interpretation of that doctrine becomes available. On this interpretation, Descartes’s God could have made the eternal truths false by choosing not to create the eternal essences to which these truths refer.

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期刊介绍： International Philosophical Quarterly has provided a peer-reviewed forum in English for the international exchange of basic philosophical ideas since 1961. The journal stands in the general tradition of theistic and personalist humanism without further restriction of school or philosophical orientation, and is open to both the philosophical discussion of contemporary issues and historical studies. It is truly international in scope with contributions from authors around the world and circulation to institutions and individuals in 70 countries. IPQ numbers among its Associate Editors scholars from both the Far East and Europe, and the journal enjoys a long-standing relationship with the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Belgium.