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Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141936062

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Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by René Descartes Pdf

Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece. This volume consists of not only a new translation of the original Latin text and the expanded objections and replies, but also includes selected correspondence and other metaphysical writings from the period 1641-49.

Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

Author : Rene Descartes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101160510

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Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by Rene Descartes Pdf

A new translation of the six Meditations and accompanying selections from the Objections and Replies, which constitute a definitive statement of the foundations of Descartes' philosophy. Also includes relevant correspondence form the period and extracts from his other metaphysical treatises.

Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

Author : Rene Descartes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780140447019

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Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by Rene Descartes Pdf

Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece. This volume consists of not only a new translation of the original Latin text and the expanded objections and replies, but also includes selected correspondence and other metaphysical writings from the period 1641-49.

Meditations on First Philosophy & Other Metaphysical Writings

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781398809987

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Meditations on First Philosophy & Other Metaphysical Writings by René Descartes Pdf

The Meditations on First Philosophy is one of Descartes's best-known works and one of the most influential philosophical texts ever written, this treatise offers Descartes' metaphysical views on the relationship between the mind and thought, the nature of reality and how accumulated knowledge and our experiences affect us. First published in 1641, the work consists of six meditations on the following topics: the dubiousness of thoughts and assumptions - as Descartes puts it, 'what can be called into doubt'; the nature of the human mind; the existence of God; truth versus falsehood; the essence of material things and, finally, the difference between mind and body. For anyone interested in the study of philosophy, this is an essential and illuminating read. This volume also includes the great philosopher's Discourse on the Method, a brilliant discussion of reasoning and experimentation which helped establish the foundations of the scientific process, a selection of enlightening essays from his Principles of Philosophy and a classic introduction by Frank Sewall.

Discourse on the Method

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300067739

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Discourse on the Method by René Descartes Pdf

Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the arts. This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on Method and Meditations, and presents essays by leading scholars that explore his contributions in each of those fields and place his ideas in the context of his time and our own. There are chapters by David Weissman on metaphysics and psychoanalysis, John Post on epistemology, Lou Massa on physics and mathematics, William T. Bluhm on politics and ethics, and Thomas Pavel on literature and art. These essays are accompanied by others by David Weissman and by Stephen Toulmin that introduce the idea of intellectual lineages, discuss the period in which Descartes wrote, and reexamine the premises of his philosophy in light of contemporary philosophical, political, and social thinking.

Meditations on First Philosophy

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : 0882065149

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Discourse on Method and Related Writings

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141906287

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Discourse on Method and Related Writings by René Descartes Pdf

This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier, unpublished work, THE WORLD; as well as a selection of Descartes' correspondence and his replies to his critics.

Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781107059207

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Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes Pdf

This is an updated edition of John Cottingham's acclaimed translation of Descartes's philosophical masterpiece, including an abridgement of Descartes's Objections and Replies.

Meditations, Objections, and Replies

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840569

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Meditations, Objections, and Replies by René Descartes Pdf

This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi--in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies--conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating Introduction discusses the Meditations and the intellectual environment surrounding its reception.

A Discourse on Method

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442936744

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A Discourse on Method by René Descartes Pdf

The book is considered to be one of the greatest classics in philosophy. It provokes one into thinking about the truths and realities of life. The author has presented his philosophy that all sufferings and miseries of human kind will be resolved due to human intellect with the passage of time. A master-piece that aggravates thinking!

Discourse on Method and the Meditations

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141944203

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Discourse on Method and the Meditations by René Descartes Pdf

René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, and this soon came to replace the traditional techniques derived from Aristotle. Many of Descartes' most radical ideas - such as the disparity between our perceptions and the realities that cause them - have been highly influential in the development of modern philosophy.

Between Two Worlds

Author : John Carriero
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691135618

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Between Two Worlds by John Carriero Pdf

Between Two Worlds is an authoritative commentary on--and powerful reinterpretation of--the founding work of modern philosophy, Descartes's Meditations. Philosophers have tended to read Descartes's seminal work in an occasional way, examining its treatment of individual topics while ignoring other parts of the text. In contrast, John Carriero provides a sustained, systematic reading of the whole text, giving a detailed account of the positions against which Descartes was reacting, and revealing anew the unity, meaning, and originality of the Meditations. Carriero finds in the Meditations a nearly continuous argument against Thomistic Aristotelian ways of thinking about cognition, and shows more clearly than ever before how Descartes bridged the old world of scholasticism and the new one of mechanistic naturalism. Rather than casting Descartes's project primarily in terms of skepticism, knowledge, and certainty, Carriero focuses on fundamental disagreements between Descartes and the scholastics over the nature of understanding, the relation between the senses and the intellect, the nature of the human being, and how and to what extent God is cognized by human beings. Against this background, Carriero shows, Descartes developed his own conceptions of mind, body, and the relation between them, creating a coherent, philosophically rich project in the Meditations and setting the agenda for a century of rationalist metaphysics.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Author : David Hume,Eric Steinberg
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872202291

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume,Eric Steinberg Pdf

A landmark of enlightenment though, HUme's An Enquiry Concerning Human understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentlemen to His Friend in Edinburgh, hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme scepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of HUman Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. In his concise Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book 1 of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature.

Principles of Philosophy

Author : Reuven Agushevits,Reʼuven Agushevits
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Judaism and philosophy
ISBN : 1602800243

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Principles of Philosophy by Reuven Agushevits,Reʼuven Agushevits Pdf

"Principles of Philosophy is an attempt, by a self-taught genius, to persuade the Yiddish speaking public that philosophy has not lost its central importance vis a vis both religion and science. He does this, first, by identifying religion with philosophy - and he is the first Orthodox rabbi since Maimonides to do so. Next, he argues that philosophical principles, which are broader than those of science, are at the basis of all existence, and that the same principles that account for the organization of matter can account for the varieties of human organization (and disorganization). He argues, finally, that the study of philosophy itself can lead to the weakening of egotism and the strengthening of altruism."--BOOK JACKET.

Discourse on Method and Meditations

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486115443

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Discourse on Method and Meditations by René Descartes Pdf

Is it possible to be certain of anything? If so, how? The father of modern philosophy and the founder of rational method in philosophical thought, René Descartes (1596–1650) sought the answers to these questions and in doing so, addressed the most important of methods of thinking and understanding truth. In Discourse on Method, he applies a scientific approach to philosophy that comprises four principles: to accept only what reason recognizes as "clear and distinct"; to analyze complex ideas by dividing them into smaller elements; to reconstruct the ideas; and to make accurate and complete enumerations of the data. His Meditations proceed according to this method, exploring the mind/body distinction, the nature of truth and error, the existence of God, and the essence of material things.