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Meditations on first philosophy : with selections from the Objections and Replies : a Latin-English edition / René Descartes ; edited and translated with textual and philosophical introductions by John Cottingham.

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Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, published in Latin in 1641, is one of the most widely studied philosophical texts of all time, and inaugurates many of the key themes that have remained central to philosophy ever since. In his original Latin text Descartes expresses himself with gre...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Descartes, René, 1596-1650
Other Authors: Cottingham, John, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Latin
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Edition:A latin-English edition.
Subjects:
First philosophy.
God > Proof, Ontological.
Methodology.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Table of Contents:
  • Philosophical introduction: the Meditations and Cartesian philosophy
  • Editorial introduction: the text and its translation
  • Meditationes De Prima Philosophia/Meditations on First Philosophy
  • Epistola dedicatoria/Dedicatory letter to the Sorbonne
  • Praefatio ad lectorem/Preface to the reader
  • Synopsis/Synopsis
  • Meditatio Prima: De iis quae in dubium revocari possunt / First Meditation: What can be called into doubt
  • Meditatio Secunda: De natura mentis humanae: quod ipsa sit notior quam corpus / Second Meditation: The nature of the human mind, and how it is better known than the body
  • Meditatio Tertia: De Deo, quod existat / Third Meditation: The existence of God
  • Meditatio Quarta: De vero et falso / Fourth Meditation: Truth and falsity
  • Meditatio Quinta: De essentia rerum materialium; et iterum de Deo, quod existat / Fifth Meditation: The essence of material things, and the existence of God considered a second time
  • Meditatio Sexta: De rerum materialium existentia, et reali mentis a corpore distinctione / Sixth Meditation: The existence of material things, and the real distinction between mind and body
  • Objectiones Cum Responsionibus / Objections and Replies [Selections]
  • Circa primam meditationem / On the First Meditation.
  • The rejection of previous beliefs
  • The reliability of the senses
  • The dreaming argument
  • Certainty in dreams
  • Circa secundam meditationem / On the Second Meditation
  • Cogito ergo sum (`I am thinking, therefore I exist')
  • Sum res cogitans (`I am a thinking thing')
  • The nature of thought
  • The piece of wax
  • Circa tertiam meditationem / On the Third Meditation
  • Innate ideas
  • The idea of God
  • Objective reality
  • God, author of my existence
  • Circa quartam meditationem / On the Fourth Meditation
  • The cause of error
  • The indifference of the will
  • Circa quintam meditationem / On the Fifth Meditation
  • Whether God's essence implies his existence
  • Clear and distinct perception and the `Cartesian Circle'
  • Circa sextam meditationem / On the Sixth Meditation
  • The real distinction between mind and body.

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