Discours de La Methode/Discourse on the Method (French/English Bilingual Text)

Discours de La Methode/Discourse on the Method (French/English Bilingual Text)

Author: René|| Descartes

Publisher: Jiahu Books

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781909669833

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Discours de la methode is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by Rene Descartes in 1637. It is one of the most influential works in the history of modern philosophy, and important to the evolution of natural sciences. In this work, Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism and modifies it to account for a truth he found to be incontrovertible. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis" ("I think, therefore I am"), which occurs in Part IV of the work. Here Descartes' original French text is reproduced alongside the English translation.


Meditations on First Philosophy

Meditations on First Philosophy

Author: René Descartes

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008-05-08

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0192806963

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In Descartes's Meditations, the thinker rejects all his former beliefs in the quest for new certainties. He develops new conceptions of body and mind to create a new science of nature. This new translation includes a wide-ranging, accessible introduction, notes and full selections from the Objections and Replies.


Meditations on First Philosophy/ Meditationes de prima philosophia

Meditations on First Philosophy/ Meditationes de prima philosophia

Author: René Descartes

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

Published: 1990-08-31

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0268161119

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This bilingual edition of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is aimed both specifically at serious students and professors of philosophy, and generally at anyone motivated by a strong philosophical interest.


Discourse on Method and Meditations

Discourse on Method and Meditations

Author: Rene Descartes

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780486432526

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Two works from the father of modern philosophy. In Discourse on Method, he formulated a scientific approach comprising four principles, including to accept only what reason recognizes as "clear and distinct." In Meditations, he explores the mind/body distinction, the nature of truth and error, the existence of God, and the essence of material things.


Discours de la Méthode

Discours de la Méthode

Author: René Descartes

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780268008710

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Dialectic and Narrative in Aquinas investigates the intent, method, and structural unity of Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles. In this innovative study Thomas S. Hibbs goes against the grain of most traditional interpretations of the work, which claim it serves a missionary or apologetic end, and argues that the intended audience is Christian and that its subject is Christian wisdom. In the process of making his argument, Hibbs also demonstrates that the Summa Contra Gentiles is the most important of Aquinas's texts on the relationship between faith and reason, theology, and philosophy. Since the prologue to the Summa Contra Gentiles has been the focus of nearly all the debates over the work, Hibbs begins with an examination of it and the controversies it has provoked, and tests various interpretations of the prologue in light of the actual text. He then goes on to suggest that the method of the Contra Gentiles is dialectical and that its unifying principle is provided by the narrative structure of scripture. The next chapters are devoted to each of the Contra Gentiles' four ports and Hibbs argues that any interpretation of the first three books must consider how the order of Aquinas's discussion is driven by a series of dialectical encounters with received opinions, especially those of Aristotle and his commentators. Hibbs further demonstrates how attention to the dialectical method of the work has two advantages: first, it enables readers to avoid misinterpretations of Aquinas's positions on various issues, and second, it allows the reader to recapture something of Aquinas's original pedagogical intent. Dialectic and Narrative in Aquinas also reveals how the dialectical method of the Contra Gentiles is crucial to Aquinas's project of subordinating philosophy to theology, and in the concluding chapter Hibbs considers in detail the narrative unity of the Contra Gentiles and brings themes from Aquinas into conversation with contemporary work in genre theory.