Rorty
Author: Amélie Rorty
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780520054967
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Essays on Descartes' Meditations
Author: Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 0520907833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume form a commentary on Descartes' Meditations. Following the sequence of the meditational stages, the authors analyze the function of each stage in transforming the reader, to realize his essential nature as a rational inquirer, capable of scientific, demonstrable knowledge of the world. There are essays on the genre of meditational writing, on the implications of the opening cathartic section of the book on Descartes' theory of perception and his use of skeptical arguments; essays on the theory of ideas and their role of Descartes' reconstructive analytic method; essays on the proofs for the existence of God, on the role of the will in the formation and malformation of judgments; and the essays on the foundations of the science of extension and on Descartes' account of the union of mind and body. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987. The essays in this volume form a commentary on Descartes' Meditations. Following the sequence of the meditational stages, the authors analyze the function of each stage in transforming the reader, to realize his essential nature as a rational inqui
Descartes and His Contemporaries
Author: Roger Ariew
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995-10-15
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780226026299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore publishing his landmark Meditations in 1641, Rene Descartes sent his manuscript to many leading thinkers to solicit their objections to his arguments. He included these objections, along with his own detailed replies, as part of the first edition. This unusual strategy gave Descartes a chance to address criticisms in advance and to demonstrate his willingness to consider diverse viewpoints—critical in an age when radical ideas could result in condemnation by church and state, or even death. Descartes and his Contemporaries recreates the tumultuous intellectual community of seventeenth-century Europe and provides a detailed, modern analysis of the Meditations in its historical context. The book's chapters examine the arguments and positions of each of the objectors—Hobbes, Gassendi, Arnauld, Morin, Caterus, Bourdin, and others whose views were compiled by Mersenne. They illuminate Descartes' relationships to the scholastics and particularly the Jesuits, to Mersenne's circle with its debates about the natural sciences, to the Epicurean movements of his day, and to the Augustinian tradition. Providing a glimpse of the interactions among leading 17th-century intellectuals as they grappled with major philosophical issues, this book sheds light on how Descartes' thought developed and was articulated in opposition to the ideas of his contemporaries.
The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations
Author: Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1405150378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux’s famous early translation of the Meditations, this volume touches on all the major themes of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy. Situates the Meditations in its philosophical and historical context. Touches on all of the major themes of the Meditations, including the mind-body relation, the nature of the mind, and the existence of the material world.
Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2000-03-15
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1603840176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.
Cartesian Reflections
Author: John Cottingham
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781383036084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Cottingham explores central areas of his philosophy, including his views on the nature of thought, the relationship between mind and body, his scientific worldview and its influence on modern thinking, the place of God in his philosophical system, and his account of the emotions and the good life.
Meditations on First Philosophy
Author: René Descartes
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780941736121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescartes' Meditations
Author: Roger Ariew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-07-28
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521485791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTexts translated from the French and Latin serve to illustrate the context of the writing of Descartes' Meditations.
Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1316571599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescartes's Meditations on First Philosophy remains one of the most widely studied works of Western philosophy. This volume is a refreshed and updated edition of John Cottingham's bestselling 1996 edition, based on his translation in the acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. It presents the complete text of Descartes's central metaphysical masterpiece, the Meditations, in clear, readable modern English, and it offers the reader additional material in a thematic abridgement of the Objections and Replies, providing a deeper understanding of how Descartes developed and clarified his arguments in response to critics. Cottingham also provides an updated introduction, together with a substantially revised bibliography, taking into account recent literature and developments in Descartes studies. The volume will be a vital resource for students reading the Meditations, as well as those studying Descartes and early modern philosophy.
The Flight to Objectivity
Author: Susan R. Bordo
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1987-07-01
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 0791497127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Flight to Objectivity offers a new reading of Descartes' Meditations informed by cultural history, psychoanalytic and cognitive psychology, and feminist thought. It focuses not on Descartes' arguments as "timeless," culturally disembodied events, but on the psychological drama and imagery of the Meditations explored in the context of the historical instability of the seventeenth century and deep historical changes in the structure of human experience. The study includes textual and cultural material that together comprise a gradually unfolding psychocultural reading of the Meditations. Descartes' famous doubt, and the ideal of objectivity which conquered that doubt, are considered as philosophical expressions of a cultural "drama of parturition" from the medieval universe, a process that generated new forms of experience, new cultural anxieties, and ultimately, new strategies for control and mastery of an utterly changed and alien world. Themes that figure prominently in recent literature on seventeenth-century philosophy and science—the birth of the mind as "mirror of nature," and the "masculine" nature of modern science, the "death of nature"—are explored with reference to Descartes as a pivotal figure in the birth of modernity.
