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Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated (Latin: Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur) is a philosophical treatise by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641.
- Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur
- René Descartes
- 1641
- Latin
A translation and edition of Descartes's philosophical treatise on the foundations of knowledge and reality. Includes an introduction by Bernard Williams, selections from the objections and replies, and a chronology of Descartes's life and works.
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Meditations on First Philosophy, a treatise by the French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650), first published in 1641, that set forth a new metaphysical dualism based on a radical distinction between mind and matter (or mind and body) and established a rational.
- Richard A. Watson
Learn about Descartes's philosophical reflections on knowledge, reality, and the self in this classic work of modern Western philosophy. Find summaries, analysis, flashcards, and more to help you understand and study Meditations on First Philosophy.
Meditations on First Philosophy. TO THE VERY SAGE AND ILLUSTRIOUS THE. DEAN AND DOCTORS OF THE SACRED. FACULTY OF THEOLOGY OF PARIS. GENTLEMEN, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. PREFACE TO THE READER. . . . . . . . . . . 8. SYNOPSIS OF THE SIX FOLLOWING. MEDITATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.
Synopsis of the Six Following Meditations. In the first Meditation I set forth the reasons for which we may, generally speaking, doubt about all things and especially about material things, at least so long as we have no other foundations for the sciences than those which we have hitherto possessed.
Meditations on First Philosophy. by Rene Descartes. Translated by John Veitch (1901) INTRODUCTION. PREFACE TO THE READER. SYNOPSIS OF THE SIX FOLLOWING MEDITATIONS. MEDITATION I. MEDITATION II. MEDITATION III.