This volume presents the excellent and popular translation by Haldane and Ross of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, an introduction by Stanley Tweyman which explores the relevance of Descartes' Regulae and his method of analysis in the Meditations, and six articles which indicate the diversity of scholarly opinion on the topic of method in Descartes' philosopy.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin
Original Language: Latin
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Stanley Tweyman is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Glendon College, York University, Ontario. He is the editor of David Hume-Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus (Routledge, 1991).
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The motive which induces me to present to you this Treatise is so excellent, and, when you become acquainted with its design, I am convinced that you will also have so excellent a motive for taking it under your protection, that I feel that I cannot do better, in order to render it in some sort acceptable to you, than in a few words to state what I have set myself to do. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Principles of Philosophy, Evil Spirit, Geometrical Appendix, Geometric Exposition, John Cottingham, Jaakko Hintikka, Meditations Descartes, Second Replies, Clarendon Press, First Philosophy, New York, Professor Gouhier, Professor Gueroult, Gerd Buchdahl, Holy Scriptures, Roger Ariew, Sixth Meditation New!
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The motive which induces me to present to you this Treatise is so excellent, and, when you become acquainted with its design, I am convinced that you will also have so excellent a motive for taking it under your protection, that I feel that I cannot do better, in order to render it in some sort acceptable to you, than in a few words to state what I have set myself to do. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
atheistic geometer, demonstrating metaphysical truths, deceiving deity, workman imprinted, analytic demonstration, perfect certitude, metaphysical first principles, thing that thinks, concerning clarity, distinction between analysis, supremely perfect being, divine guarantee, first meditation, ontological proof, auxiliary constructions, priori proof, corporeal objects, formal reality, whatever thinks, primary notions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Principles of Philosophy, Evil Spirit, Geometrical Appendix, Geometric Exposition, John Cottingham, Jaakko Hintikka, Meditations Descartes, Second Replies, Clarendon Press, First Philosophy, New York, Professor Gouhier, Professor Gueroult, Gerd Buchdahl, Holy Scriptures, Roger Ariew, Sixth Meditation New!
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- The Principles Of Philosophy by Rene Descartes on 11 pages
- Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by René Descartes on 5 pages
- The Method of Analysis: Its Geometrical Origin and its General Significance (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by Jaakko Hintikka on 4 pages
- The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1 by René Descartes on 4 pages
- Descartes and Hume: Selected Topics by Stanley Tweyman in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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