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The prize is awarded to an outstanding contemporary philosopher in memory of Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680). She was the eldest daughter of Prince Friedrich V. of the Palatinate and his wife Elisabeth Stuart, a granddaughter of Maria Stuart. In her time Elisabeth of Bohemia was also a well-known European intellectual and pupil of Descartes.
27 de mar. de 2023 · In the 1640s Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes engaged in a philosophically rich correspondence. The most well-known aspect of the correspondence begins with a question Elisabeth asks Descartes about his account of the interaction between soul and body that he defends in the Meditations on First Philosophy.
7 de oct. de 2021 · This chapter traces the development in Elisabeth of a mature political persona that was uniquely hers. It was composed of many parts. On the one hand she hoped to enact some of the virtues to which she’d been introduced in her reading of ancient philosophy, while on the other hand she needed to be true to her sense of herself as the inheritor of a royal pedigree, with the need to represent ...
21 de sept. de 2022 · Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia was born in 1618 in Heidelberg, Germany. She was the third child of Elisabeth Stuart, the daughter of King James I of England, and the Protestant King Frederick V of Bohemia. Elisabeth was formally tutored in many subjects, including a handful of Romance languages, logic, mathematics, politics, philosophy, and ...
Overview: Elisabeth objects to Descartes’ dualism by positing the “interaction problem”–since Descartes subscribes to the mechanical philosophy (that matter must be moved mechanically–through pushing or pulling), she argues that the soul (which is immaterial) cannot move the body since it cannot push or pull.
26 December 1618. Princess Elisabeth is born in Heidelberg Castle as the oldest daughter to Frederick V, the Elector of the Palatinate, and Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I of England. 8 November 1620. The weakly defended Bohemia is taken by the Spanish Ambrogio Spinola as part of the Thirty Years’ War.
Abstract. This paper focuses on Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia's philosophical views as exhibited in her early correspondence with Rene Descartes. Elisabeth's criticisms of Descartes's interactionism as well as her solution to the problem of mind-body interaction are examined in detail. The aim here is to develop a richer picture of Elisabeth as ...
