Meditations on First Philosophy with Selections from the Objections and Replies (Oxford World's Classics)

Renà Descartes, Michael Moriarty

ISBN 10: 0192806963 / ISBN 13: 9780192806963

Editore: OUP Oxford, 2008

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Riassunto:

'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished'

In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, the thinker rejects all his former beliefs in the quest for new certainties. Discovering his own existence as a thinking entity in the very exercise of doubt, he goes on to prove the existence of God, who guarantees his clear and distinct ideas as a means of access to the truth. He develops new conceptions of body and mind, capable of serving as foundations for the new science of nature. Subsequent philosophy has grappled with Descartes's legacy, questioning many of its conclusions and even his basic approach, but his arguments set the agenda for many of the greatest philosophical thinkers, and their fascination endures.

This new translation includes the Third and Fourth Objections and Replies in full, and a selection from the rest of these exchanges with Descartes's contemporaries that helped to expound his philosophy.
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Informazioni sull'autore: Michael Moriarty is Centenary Professor of French Literature and Thought, Queen Mary, University of London.

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Titolo: Meditations on First Philosophy with ...
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good