Descartes's Meditations: An Introduction

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Cambridge University Press, 20‏/11‏/2003 - 271 من الصفحات
This is a new introduction to a philosophical classic. Drawing on the reinterpretations of Descartes' thought of the past twenty-five years, Catherine Wilson examines the arguments of Descartes' famous Meditations, showing how Descartes constructs a theory of the mind, the body, nature, and God from a premise of radical uncertainty. She discusses in detail the historical context of Descartes' writings and their relationship to early modern science, and at the same time she introduces concepts and problems that define the philosophical enterprise as it is understood today.
 

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About the Meditations
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The situation of the Meditator is described and his desire to demolish everything and begin again is explored while the Reader is introduced to some ...
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Meditation One The possibility of a malevolent Demon is raised and the Meditator resolves to doubt everything he can possibly doubt
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2 OBJECTIONS TO MEDITATION ONE
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Meditation Two The Meditator discovers an indubitable proposition and continues with an investigation into her ideas of herself and her ideas of cor...
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Meditation Six I The Meditator determines that he is apparently attached to a particular human body His mind and this putative body are nevertheless...
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3 OBJECTIONS TO MEDITATION SIX I
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Meditation Six II The Meditator establishes that extramental corporeal things definitely exist confirms that she has a personal body to which she is uni...
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5 OBJECTIONS TO MEDITATION SIX II
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4 OBJECTIONS TO MEDITATION TWO
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Meditation Three I The Meditator discovers how to distinguish true from false propositions by reference to the clarity and distinctness of his ideas an...
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3 OBJECTIONS TO MEDITATION THREE I
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Meditation Three II The Meditator finds that he can reach a perfect God in his thoughts and that this God cannot perpetrate fraud and deception and ...
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3 OBJECTIONS TO MEDITATION THREE II
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Meditation Four I The Meditator broods on her epistemological and moral errors and deficiencies and discovers the true power of her will and its spo...
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Meditation Four II The Meditator diagnoses the cause of her epistemological and moral errors adds an errorprevention rule to her knowledgeset and ...
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2 OBJECTIONS TO MEDITATION FOUR
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Meditation Five The Meditator reflects on his experiences of mathematical and abstract concepts and arrives at a proof of Gods existence
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3 OBJECTIONS TO MEDITATION FIVE
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Meditation Six III The Meditator learns how her body is organized and discovers why her illnesses like her errors suggest that God is benevolent and ...
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3 OBJECTIONS TO MEDITATION SIX III
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Descartes in context
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2 SOME REACTIONS TO CARTESIANISM
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3 RECEPTION AND REPERCUSSIONS OF CARTESIAN DOCTRINE IN SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTHCENTURY PHILOSOPHY
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4 DESCARTES AND THE FORMATION OF MODERNITY
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the Objectors
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Glossary
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Further reading
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Index
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