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Descartes' Meditations, background source materials, edited [and translated from the Latin and French] by Roger Ariew, John Cottingham, and Tom Sorell

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Descartes' Meditations, background source materials, edited [and translated from the Latin and French] by Roger Ariew, John Cottingham, and Tom Sorell

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eng

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Descartes' Meditations

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electronic resource

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dictionaries

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817913883

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edited [and translated from the Latin and French] by Roger Ariew, John Cottingham, and Tom Sorell

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Cambridge philosophical texts in contextCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

background source materials

Summary

No single text could be considered more important in the history of philosophy than Descartes' Meditations. This unique collection of background material to this magisterial philosophical text has been translated from the original French and Latin. The texts gathered here illustrate the kinds of principles, assumptions, and philosophical methods that were commonplace when Descartes was growing up. The selections are from: Francisco Sanches, Christopher Clavius, Pierre de la Ramee (Petrus Ramus), Francisco Suárez, Pierre Charron, Eustachius a Sancto Paulo, Scipion Dupleix, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, Jean de Silhon, François de la Mothe le Vayer, Charles Sorel, and Jean-Baptiste Morin.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Dialectic / Petrus Ramus -- That nothing is known / Francisco Sanches -- The promotion of mathematics / Christopher Clavius -- Metaphysical disputations / Francisco Suarez -- Wisdom / Pierre Charron -- A compendium of philosophy in four parts / Eustachius a Sancto Paulo -- Corpus of philosophy / Scipion Dupleix -- The use of reason, The impiety of the deists, and The truth of the sciences / Marin Mersenne -- Unorthodox essays against the Aristotelians / Pierre Gassendi -- The two truths and The immortality of the soul / Jean de Silhon -- Dialogue on the diversity of religions and Little skeptical treatise / Francois de la Mothe Vayer -- Universal science / Charles Sorel -- The God that exists / Jean-Baptiste Morin

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