Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Descartes and The MeditationsPsychology Press, 2003 - 353 من الصفحات Rene Descartes is generally accepted as the "father of modern philosophy", and his Meditations is perhaps the most famous philosophical text ever written. In this Routledge Philosophy GuideBook, Gary Hatfield guides the reader through the text of the Meditations, providing commentary and analysis throughout. He assesses Descartes' importance in the history of philosophy and his continuing relevance to contemporary thought. Descartes and the Meditations will be essential reading for all students of philosophy, and for anyone coming to Descartes for the first time. |
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Descartes project | 3 |
1718 | 7 |
A mission in life | 10 |
A unified physics | 17 |
Subsequent works | 26 |
Reading Descartes today | 32 |
On what is not called into doubt | 55 |
References and further reading | 97 |
Judgment error and freedom | 183 |
Matter God and the circle again | 203 |
The natural world and the mindbody relation | 237 |
physics physiology and | 283 |
The cogito investigation | 308 |
Legacy and contribution | 315 |
Appendix | 335 |
Truth God and the circle | 141 |
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