Meditations on first philosophy : with selections from the objections and replies : a Latin-English edition / René Descartes ; edited and translated with textual and philosophical introductions by John Cottingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650, author.

Contributor:

Cottingham, John, 1943- editor, translator.

Standardized Title:

Meditationes de prima philosophia. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First philosophy.

God--Proof, Ontological.

God.

Methodology.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, published in Latin in 1641, is one of the most widely studied philosophical texts of all time, and inaugurates many of the key themes that have remained central to philosophy ever since. In his original Latin text Descartes expresses himself with great lucidity and elegance, and there is enormous interest, even for those who are not fluent in Latin, in seeing how the famous concepts and arguments of his great masterpiece unfold in the original language. John Cottingham's acclaimed English translation of the work is presented here in a facing-page edition alongside the original Latin text. Students of classical philosophy have long had the benefit of dual-language editions, and the availability of such a resource for the canonical works of the early-modern period is long overdue. This volume now makes available, in an invaluable dual-language format, one of the most seminal texts of Western philosophy.

Contents:

Philosophical introduction: the Meditations and Cartesian philosophy

Editorial introduction: the text and its translation

Meditationes De Prima Philosophia/Meditations on First Philosophy

Epistola dedicatoria/Dedicatory letter to the Sorbonne

Praefatio ad lectorem/Preface to the reader

Synopsis/Synopsis

Meditatio Prima: De iis quae in dubium revocari possunt / First Meditation: What can be called into doubt

Meditatio Secunda: De natura mentis humanae: quod ipsa sit notior quam corpus / Second Meditation: The nature of the human mind, and how it is better known than the body

Meditatio Tertia: De Deo, quod existat / Third Meditation: The existence of God

Meditatio Quarta: De vero et falso / Fourth Meditation: Truth and falsity

Meditatio Quinta: De essentia rerum materialium; et iterum de Deo, quod existat / Fifth Meditation: The essence of material things, and the existence of God considered a second time

Meditatio Sexta: De rerum materialium existentia, et reali mentis a corpore distinctione / Sixth Meditation: The existence of material things, and the real distinction between mind and body

Objectiones Cum Responsionibus / Objections and Replies [Selections]

Circa primam meditationem / On the First Meditation.

The rejection of previous beliefs

The reliability of the senses

The dreaming argument

Certainty in dreams

Circa secundam meditationem / On the Second Meditation

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

Circa tertiam meditationem / On the Third Meditation

Innate ideas

The idea of God

Objective reality

God, author of my existence

Circa quartam meditationem / On the Fourth Meditation

The cause of error

The indifference of the will

Circa quintam meditationem / On the Fifth Meditation

Whether God's essence implies his existence

Clear and distinct perception and the `Cartesian Circle'

Circa sextam meditationem / On the Sixth Meditation

The real distinction between mind and body.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Contains:

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

ISBN:

1-107-22301-6

1-107-33534-5

1-107-33285-0

1-107-33222-2

1-107-33451-9

1-139-04289-0

1-107-33617-1

OCLC:

843192050