Meditations on First Philosophy : With Selections from the Objections and Replies.
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 Obje...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press, UK,
2008.
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| Series: | Oxford world's classics.
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| Summary: | 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. - ;'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards ... I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished'. In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, the t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780191539718 0191539716 1281769851 9781281769855 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |