Rene Descartes : meditations on first philosophy in focus / edited and with an introduction by Stanley Tweyman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Tweyman, Stanley, 1942-

Series:

Routledge philosophers in focus series.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

First philosophy--Early works to 1800.

First philosophy.

God--Proof, Ontological--Early works to 1800.

God.

Methodology.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1993.

Summary:

This includes the excellent translation by Haldane and Ross of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, an introduction by Tweyman, and six articles indicating the diversity of scholarly opinion on method in Descartes' philosophy.

Contents:

Front Cover; Rene Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Stanley Tweyman; Meditations on First Philosophy; Letter of dedication; Preface to the reader; Synopsis of the six following Meditations; I. Of the things which may be brought within the sphere of the doubtful; II. Of the nature of the human mind; and that it is more easily known than the body; III. Of God: that He exists; IV. Of the true and the false; V. Of the essence of material things, and, again, of God, that He exists

VI. Of the existence of material things, and of the real distinction between the soul and body of manExcerpt From Replies To Objections II; Descartes' Use of "Demonstration" and "Deduction": Desmond M.Clarke; A Discourse on Descartes' Method: Jaakko Hintikka; A Point of order: Analysis, Synthesis, and Descartes' Principles: Daniel Garber and Lesley Cohen; Professor Cottingham and Descartes' Methods of Analysis and Synthesis: Stanley Tweyman; Analysis in the Meditations: The Quest for Clear and Distinct Ideas: E.M. Curley; The Ontological Proof Within the Order of Reasons: Georges J. D. Moyal

Selected bibliographySelected index

Notes:

Contains the Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross translation.

Related Work:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Meditationes de prima philosophia.

ISBN:

0-203-41762-3

1-280-06937-6

0-203-31037-3

1-134-90101-1

1-134-90100-3

9780203417621

OCLC:

647379754