Method, Intuition, and Meditation in Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy / Stanley Tweyman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tweyman, Stanley, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First philosophy.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Metaphysics.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Descartes, René.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

This book deals with Descartes' efforts in his Meditations to discover the first principles of human knowledge, that is, what must be known before anything else can be known. In order for these principles to be first principles, they cannot be conclusions obtained through deductive reasoning. Further, Descartes insists that these first principles cannot be known through the senses, but only through intuition or meditation, our only cognitive faculties for grasping self-evident first principles. This book provides Descartes' reasons for rejecting the senses as the source of these first principles, and offers textual support for the role of intuition and meditation in apprehending the first principles of human knowledge. Although the bulk of the book is largely exegetical in nature, the last chapter proceeds more critically to show the failures of Descartes' approach.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Epilogue

Selected Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Tweyman, Stanley Method, Intuition, and Meditation in Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy

ISBN:

9781527515062

1527515060

OCLC:

1392347545