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Descartes' Meditations

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Descartes' Meditations

Descartes' Meditations

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Roger Ariew, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
John Cottingham
Tom Sorell, University of Essex
July 1998
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    This unique collection of background material to Descartes' Meditations has been translated from the original French and Latin. The texts gathered here illustrate the kinds of principles, assumptions, and philosophical methods that were commonplace when Descartes was growing up. The selections are from Francisco Sanches, Christopher Clavius, Pierre de la Rameé (Petrus Ramus), Francisco Suarez, Pierre Charron, Eustachius a Sancto Paulo, Scipion Dupleix, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, François de la Mother le Vayer, Charles Sorel, and Jean-Baptiste Morin.

    • Unique collection of texts never before translated that provide the intellectual context to Descartes' Meditations, one of the most important of all philosophical texts
    • Intended to help teach the history of philosophy
    • Helpful introduction and annotation

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    "With its crisp translations, its clear introductions to often obscure primary sources, and its pedagogical concern to link these texts to perennial issues in interpreting the Meditations, this sourcebook should serve as an excellent text in a graduate or honors seminar focused on Descartes." International Philosophical Quarterly

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    July 1998
    Paperback
    9780521485791
    292 pages
    236 × 154 × 19 mm
    0.436kg
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. That nothing is known Francisco Sanches
    • 2. The promotion of mathematics Christopher Clavius
    • 3. Dialectic Petrus Ramus
    • 4. Metaphysical disputations Francisco Suárez
    • 5. Wisdom Pierre Charron
    • 6. A compendium of philosophy in four parts Eustachius a Sancto Paulo
    • 7. Corpus of philosophy Scipion Dupleix
    • 8. The use of reason: the impiety of the deists: the truth of the sciences Marin Mersenne
    • 9. Unorthodox essays against the Aristotelians Pierre Gassendi
    • 10. The two truths: the immortality of the soul Jean de Silhon
    • 11. Dialogue on the diversity of religions: little skeptical treatise François de La Mothe le Vayer
    • 12. Universal science Charles Sorel
    • 13. That God exists Jean-Baptiste Morin
    • Appendix: condemnations of Cartesianism
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Comparative table of passages from Meditations.
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    • Francisco Sanches, Christopher Clavius, Petrus Ramus, Francisco Suarez, Pierre Charron, Eustachius a Sancto Paulo, Scipion Dupleix, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, Jean de Silhon, Francois de La Mothe le Vayer, Charles Sorel, Jean-Baptiste Morin

      • Editors
    • Roger Ariew , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    • John Cottingham
    • Tom Sorell , University of Essex

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