Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780520907836
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0520907833
Series Statement:
Major thinkers series 4
Content:
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 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Structure of Descartes' Meditations /
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Naive narrator : meditation in Descartes' Meditations /
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Senses and the fleshless eye : the Meditations as cognitive exercises /
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Semel in vita : the scientific background to Descartes' Meditations /
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Descartes and the metaphysics of doubt /
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Descartes and the problem of other minds /
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Analysis in the Meditations : the quest for clear and distinct ideas /
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Theory of ideas /
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Second Mediation and the essence of the mind /
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Meaning and objective being : Descartes and his sources /
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Is there radical dissimulation in Descartes' Meditations? /
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On the complementarity of Meditations III and V : from the "general rule" of evidence to "certain science" /
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Essential incoherence of Descartes' definition of divinity /
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Can I be the cause of my idea of the world? (Descartes on the infinite and indefinite) /
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Idea of the true God in Descartes /
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Confused and obscure ideas of sense /
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Will and the theory of judgment /
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Objectum Purae Matheseos : mathematical construction and the passage from essence to existence /
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Status of necessity and impossibility in Descartes /
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Descartes : "All things which I conceive clearly and distinctly in corporeal objects are in them" /
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Why was Descartes a foundationalist? /
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Cartesian passions and the union of mind and body /
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Essays on Descartes' Meditations Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1986 ISBN 0520054962
Language:
English
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