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1 day ago · Moreover, in The Meditations, Descartes discusses a piece of wax and exposes the single most characteristic doctrine of Cartesian dualism: that the universe contained two radically different kinds of substances—the mind or soul defined as thinking, and the body defined as matter and unthinking.
4 days ago · The meditator of the Meditations is not a full-blown Cartesian at the start or middle or even the end of inquiry, and accordingly the Meditations is riddled with confusions throughout. Cunning argues that Descartes is trying to capture the kind of reasoning that a non-Cartesian would have to engage in to make the relevant epistemic progress ...
May 11, 2024 · The Meditations consist of the presentation of Descartes' metaphysical system in its most detailed level and in the expanding of Descartes' philosophical system, which he first introduced in the fourth part of his Discourse on Method (1637).
May 18, 2024 · Rene Descartes’ Meditations, Objections, and Replies is an online synchronous class, meeting for 8 weeks. Online is pretty self-explanatory. Everything we do in the class happens online, using the course site or Zoom. All the resources for the class are stored and uploaded into that course website.
May 1, 2024 · René Descartes. Born: March 31, 1596, La Haye, Touraine, France. Died: February 11, 1650, Stockholm, Sweden (aged 53) Notable Works: “La Géométrie” “Letter to Voetius” “Meditations on First Philosophy” “Principles of Philosophy” “Rules for the Direction of the Mind” “The Discourse on Method” “The Passions of the Soul” “The World” (Show more)
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1 day ago · THE Metaphysical meditations of Descartes constitute the secret which allows us to understand the thought of Sartre? This is the audacious thesis of C. Riquier, but can it extend to the whole of his work??
May 13, 2024 · What we know and how we know it: Cartesian meditations on some hard problems at the interface of science and empiricist philosophy. Michael LaFargue. Abstract. Laboratory science is our only source of knowledge about the world as it is apart from our perceptions of the world.