Descartes' Meditations: background source materials
by Ariew, Roger Cottingham, John Sorell, Tom
No single text could be considered more important in the history of philosophy than Descartes' Meditations. This unique collection of background material to this magisterial philosophical text 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 Ramee (Petrus Ramus)…
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- Full title :Descartes' Meditations : background source materials / edited [and translated from the Latin and French] by Roger Ariew, John Cottingham, and Tom Sorell.
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No single text could be considered more important in the history of philosophy than Descartes' Meditations. This unique collection of background material to this magisterial philosophical text 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 Ramee (Petrus Ramus), Francisco Suárez, Pierre Charron, Eustachius a Sancto Paulo, Scipion Dupleix, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, Jean de Silhon, François de la Mothe le Vayer, Charles Sorel, and Jean-Baptiste Morin.
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- Publication Date:1998
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xviii, 270 Seiten)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139172844, 1139172840, 9780521481267, 0521481260, 9780521485791, 0521485797
- DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139172844
- oclc:ocn967393758
- LC Classification:B1854
- Dewey Decimal:194
Table of Contents
Dialectic / Petrus Ramus -- That nothing is known / Francisco Sanches -- The promotion of mathematics / Christopher Clavius -- Metaphysical disputations / Francisco Suarez -- Wisdom / Pierre Charron -- A compendium of philosophy in four parts / Eustachius a Sancto Paulo -- Corpus of philosophy / Scipion Dupleix -- The use of reason, The impiety of the deists, and The truth of the sciences / Marin Mersenne -- Unorthodox essays against the Aristotelians / Pierre Gassendi -- The two truths and The immortality of the soul / Jean de Silhon -- Dialogue on the diversity of religions and Little skeptical treatise / Francois de la Mothe Vayer -- Universal science / Charles Sorel -- The God that exists / Jean-Baptiste Morin.
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