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by René Descartes

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An edition of The method, meditations and philosophy of Descartes (1901)

The method, meditations and philosophy of Descartes

by René Descartes

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The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief in things which are not absolutely certain, and then tries to establish what can be known for sure. The meditations were written as if he were meditating for 6 days: each meditation refers to the last one as "yesterday".

The Meditations consist of the presentation of Descartes' metaphysical system in its most detailed level and in the expanding of Descartes' philosophical system, which he first introduced in the fourth part of his Discourse on Method (1637). Descartes' metaphysical thought is also found in the Principles of Philosophy (1644), which the author intended to be a philosophy guidebook.

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1901

Publisher

Aladdin

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Introduction

I. Descartes - His Life and Writings (p. 1)

II. Philosophy Proceeding Descartes in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (p. 6)

III. The Cogito ergo sum - Its Nature and Meaning (p. 11)

IV. Cogito ergo sum - Objections to Principle (p. 21)

V. That Guarantee of the Principle (p. 27)

VI. The Criterion of Truth (p. 39)

VII. The Ego and the Material World (p. 48)

VIII. Innate Ideas (p. 57)

IX. Malebranche (p. 58)

X. Spinoza - Relations to Descartes (p. 68)

XI. Development of Cartesianism in the Line of Spinoza - Omnis determinatio est negatio (p. 88)

XII. Hegellan Criticism - the Ego and the Infinite (p. 107)

Discourse on Method

Prefatory Note by the Author (p. 148)

I. Various Considerations Touching the Sciences (p. 149)

II. The Principal Rules of the Method (p. 149)

III. Certain Rules of Morals Deduced from the Method (p. 164)

IV. Reasons Establishing the Existence of God and of the Human Soul (p. 170)

V. The Order of the Physical Questions Investigated In Descartes. His Explication of the Motion of the Heart and of Some Other Difficulties Pertaining to Medicine, the Difference between the Soul of Man and that of Brutes (p. 177)

VI. What is Required in Order to Greater Advancement in the INvestigation of Nature, Reasons that Induced Descartes to Write (p. 190)

The Meditations

Dedication (p. 206)

Preface (p. 211)

Synopsis of Meditations (p. 215)

I. Of the Things which We may Doubt (p. 219)

II. Of the Nature of the Human Mind, and that It IS More Easily Known than the Body (p. 214)

III. Of God that He Exists (p. 254)

IV. Of Truth and Error (p. 249)

V. Of the Essence of Material Things and, Again, of God, that He Exists (p. 258)

VI. Of the Existence of Material Things, and of the Real Distinction between the Mind and Body of Man (p. 264)

The Principles of Philosophy

Preface (p. 283)

Dedication (p. 297)

I. Of the Principles of Human Knowledge (p. 301)

II. Of the Principles of Material Things. Sects. i. to xxv (p. 333)

III. Of the Visible World. Sects i. to iii. (p. 345)

IV. Of the Earth. Sects clxxxviii. to ccviii (p. 347)

Appendix

Reasons which Establish the Existence of God, and the Distinction between the Mind and Body of Man, Disposed in Geometrical Order (p. 363)

Classifications

Library of Congress: B1837 V4 1901

The Physical Object

Pagination: xviii, 371 p.
Dimensions: 24 cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library: OL7056258M
Internet Archive: themethodmeditat00descuoft

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The method, meditations and philosophy of Descartes

by René Descartes