Sentences with phrase «cartesian subjectivism»

Leclerc goes on to cite a Whiteheadian passage praising «the advent of Cartesian subjectivism [for as a result] the substance - quality category has lost all claim to metaphysical primacy» (WM 120, citing PR 243).

This last statement could certainly use some elaboration, for it seems actually to contradict a later section in Leclerc's book, where White - head's praise of Cartesian subjectivism is cited:

Whitehead says, «The philosophy of organism extends the Cartesian subjectivism by affirming the «ontological» principle and construing it as the definition of «actuality»» (PR 123).

The terms in which Whitehead describes his divergence from Descartes are extremely suggestive: for it is his mathematical or functional conception of form that enables him to effect his «reform» of the Cartesian subjectivism.

The Cartesian subjectivism in its application to physical science became Newton's assumption of individually existent physical bodies, with merely external relationships.