Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy / Edition 4

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy / Edition 4

ISBN-10:
0872204200
ISBN-13:
9780872204201
Pub. Date:
06/15/1999
Publisher:
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN-10:
0872204200
ISBN-13:
9780872204201
Pub. Date:
06/15/1999
Publisher:
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy / Edition 4

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy / Edition 4

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Overview

This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on Method and Meditations, and presents essays by leading scholars that explore his contributions in metaphysics, epistemology, physics, mathematics, political theory, ethics, psychoanalysis, literature and the arts, and place his ideas in the context of his time and our own.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780872204201
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date: 06/15/1999
Series: Hackett Classics
Edition description: Fourth Edition,4
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 101,467
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author


Donald A. Cress is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Parkside. His translations of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on Method are also published by Hackett.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Descartes 7

Translator's Note 16

Introduction to the Discourse 17

Discourse on Method 25

Part One 28

Part Two 34

Part Three 41

Part Four 47

Part Five 53

Part Six v 65

Introduction to the Meditations 77

Meditations on First Philosophy 85

Dedication to the Sorbonne 87

Preface to the Reader 93

Synopsis of the Six Following Meditations 97

First Meditation: Concerning Those Things Which Can Be Called into Doubt 101

Second Meditation: Concerning the Nature of the Human Mind and the Fact that It Is Easier to Know than the Body 106

Third Meditation: Concerning God and the Fact that He Exists 113

Fourth Meditation: Concerning Truth and Falsity 125

Fifth Meditation: Concerning the Essence of Material Things, and, Once Again, Concerning the Fact that God Exists 132

Sixth Meditation: Concerning the Existence of Material Things and the Real Distinction between Mind and Body 138

Index 151

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