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STEPHEN MENN'S CARTESIAN AUGUSTINE: METAPHYSICAL AND AHISTORICALLY MODERN A Review Article devoted to Stephen Menn. Descartes and Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Stephen Menn finds in Augustine the metaphysical foundations of Descartes' philosophy but not because he discovers in Augustine what lies at the origins of modernity. Menn is "anti-historicist" 1 and works within a metaphysical science which "progresses through emulation, criticism, and refinement." He reports that "Gilson and many others think that there is something essentially modern underlying Descartes' whole project of thought, and that this modern orientation excludes any real community of intention between Cartesian and pre-modern metaphysics." Though the others include Heidegger and Husserl, Menn "can find no truth in any of this." Having examined Descartes' sources, Menn discovers no "incommensurability between Descartes' 'modern' metaphysical project and the 'pre-modern' projects of his predecessors," but this is not because he has considered what distances must be spanned or what shapes need a common measure.