Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and RepliesCambridge University Press, 18. apr. 1996 - 120 sider The Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, is the most widely studied of all Descartes' writings. This authoritative translation by John Cottingham, taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes, is based upon the best available texts and presents Descartes' central metaphysical writings in clear, readable modern English. As well as the complete text of the Meditations, the reader will find a thematic abridgement of the Objections and Replies (which were originally published with the Meditations) containing Descartes' replies to his critics. These extracts, specially selected for the present volume, indicate the main philosophical difficulties which occurred to Descartes' contemporaries and show how Descartes developed and clarified his arguments in response. This edition contains a new comprehensive introduction to Descartes' philosophy by John Cottingham and the classic introductory essay on the Meditations by Bernard Williams. |
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Dedicatory letter to the Sorbonne | 3 |
Preface to the reader | 6 |
Synopsis of the following six Meditations | 9 |
What can be called into doubt | 12 |
The nature of the human mind and how it is better known than the body | 16 |
The existence of God | 24 |
Truth and falsity | 37 |
The essence of material things and the existence of God considered a second time | 44 |
The nature of thought | 74 |
The piece of wax | 76 |
On Meditation Three | 78 |
The idea of God | 80 |
Objective reality | 84 |
God author of my existence | 86 |
On Meditation Four | 90 |
The indifference of the will | 92 |
The existence of material things and the real distinction between mind and body | 50 |
Selections from the Objections and Replies | 63 |
The dreaming argument | 65 |
Certainty in dreams | 66 |
On Meditation Two | 68 |
Sum res cogitans I am a thinking thing | 69 |
On Meditation Five | 95 |
Clear and distinct perception and the Cartesian Circle | 102 |
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