Meditations on first philosophy : with selections from the Objections and replies / René Descartes ; translated and edited by John Cottingham ; with an introductory essay by Bernard Williams and a new introduction for this edition by John Cottingham.
By: Descartes, René
Contributor(s): Cottingham, John | Williams, Bernard
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Series: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy: Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1996Edition: Rev. edDescription: xlvi, 120 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521552524; 0521558182 (pbk.)Uniform titles: Meditationes de prima philosophia. English Subject(s): First philosophy | First philosophy -- Early works to 1800 | Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800DDC classification: 194 LOC classification: B1853.E5 | C6713 1996Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xli-xlii) and index.
What can be called into doubt -- The nature of the human mind, and how it is better known than the body -- The existence of God -- Truth and falsity -- The essence of material things, and the existence of God considered a second time -- The existence of material things, and the real distinction between mind and body. Selections from the objections and replies : The rejection of previous beliefs -- The reliability of the senses -- The dreaming argument -- Centainty in dreams -- Cogito ergo sum ('I am thinking, therefore I exist') -- Sum res cogitans ('I am a thinking thing') -- The nature of thought -- The piece of wax -- Innate ideas -- The idea of God -- Objective reality -- God, author of my existence -- The cause of error -- The indifference of the will -- Whether God's essence implies his existence -- Clear and distinct perception and the 'Cartesian circle' -- The real distinction between mind and body.
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