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Book Synopsis Discourse on the Method by : René Descartes
Download or read book Discourse on the Method written by René Descartes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the arts. This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on Method and Meditations, and presents essays by leading scholars that explore his contributions in each of those fields and place his ideas in the context of his time and our own. There are chapters by David Weissman on metaphysics and psychoanalysis, John Post on epistemology, Lou Massa on physics and mathematics, William T. Bluhm on politics and ethics, and Thomas Pavel on literature and art. These essays are accompanied by others by David Weissman and by Stephen Toulmin that introduce the idea of intellectual lineages, discuss the period in which Descartes wrote, and reexamine the premises of his philosophy in light of contemporary philosophical, political, and social thinking.
Book Synopsis Meditations on First Philosophy by : René Descartes
Download or read book Meditations on First Philosophy written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Meditations, Objections, and Replies by : René Descartes
Download or read book Meditations, Objections, and Replies written by René Descartes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi--in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies--conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating Introduction discusses the Meditations and the intellectual environment surrounding its reception.
Book Synopsis Between Two Worlds by : John Carriero
Download or read book Between Two Worlds written by John Carriero and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Two Worlds is an authoritative commentary on--and powerful reinterpretation of--the founding work of modern philosophy, Descartes's Meditations. Philosophers have tended to read Descartes's seminal work in an occasional way, examining its treatment of individual topics while ignoring other parts of the text. In contrast, John Carriero provides a sustained, systematic reading of the whole text, giving a detailed account of the positions against which Descartes was reacting, and revealing anew the unity, meaning, and originality of the Meditations. Carriero finds in the Meditations a nearly continuous argument against Thomistic Aristotelian ways of thinking about cognition, and shows more clearly than ever before how Descartes bridged the old world of scholasticism and the new one of mechanistic naturalism. Rather than casting Descartes's project primarily in terms of skepticism, knowledge, and certainty, Carriero focuses on fundamental disagreements between Descartes and the scholastics over the nature of understanding, the relation between the senses and the intellect, the nature of the human being, and how and to what extent God is cognized by human beings. Against this background, Carriero shows, Descartes developed his own conceptions of mind, body, and the relation between them, creating a coherent, philosophically rich project in the Meditations and setting the agenda for a century of rationalist metaphysics.
Download or read book Meditations I and II written by Descartes and published by . This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations I and II are part and parcel to Ren� Descartes' larger work, "Meditations on First Philosophy." The First Meditation, subtitled "What can be called into doubt", opens with the Meditator reflecting on the number of falsehoods he has believed during his life and on the subsequent faultiness of the body of knowledge he has built up from these falsehoods. He has resolved to sweep away all he thinks he knows and to start again from the foundations, building up his knowledge once more on more certain grounds. He has seated himself alone, by the fire, free of all worries so that he can demolish his former opinions with care.The Meditator reasons that he need only find some reason to doubt his present opinions in order to prompt him to seek sturdier foundations for knowledge. Rather than doubt every one of his opinions individually, he reasons that he might cast them all into doubt if he can doubt the foundations and basic principles on which the opinions are founded.Everything that the Meditator has accepted as most true he has come to learn from or through his senses. He acknowledges that sometimes the senses can deceive, but only with respect to objects that are very small or far away, and that our sensory knowledge on the whole is quite sturdy. The Meditator acknowledges that insane people might be more deceived, but that he is clearly not one of them and needn't worry himself about that.However, the Meditator realizes that he is often convinced when he is dreaming that he is sensing real objects. He feels certain that he is awake and sitting by the fire, but reflects that often he has dreamed this very sort of thing and been wholly convinced by it. Though his present sensations may be dream images, he suggests that even dream images are drawn from waking experience, much like paintings in that respect. Even when a painter creates an imaginary creature, like a mermaid, the composite parts are drawn from real things--women and fish, in the case of a mermaid. And even when a painter creates something entirely new, at least the colors in the painting are drawn from real experience. Thus, the Meditator concludes, though he can doubt composite things, he cannot doubt the simple and universal parts from which they are constructed like shape, quantity, size, time, etc. While we can doubt studies based on composite things, like medicine, astronomy, or physics, he concludes that we cannot doubt studies based on simple things, like arithmetic and geometry.
Book Synopsis Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation by : Martin Heidegger
Download or read book Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “readable and fluent” translation of a work that demonstrates a crucial shift in Heidegger’s approach to Nietzsche in the late 1930s (Phenomenological Reviews). In Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation, Martin Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier. This evolution in his relationship with Nietzsche has a significant impact on his understandings of the differences between animals and humans, temporality and history, and the Western philosophical tradition developed. With his new reading, Heidegger delineates three Nietzschean modes of history, which should be understood as grounded in the structure of temporality or historicity. He also offers a metaphysical determination of life and the essence of humankind. Despite the fragmentary and disjointed quality of the original lecture notes that comprise this text, Ullrich Hasse and Mark Sinclair deliver a clear and accessible translation.
Author :Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) Publisher :Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated ISBN 13 :9780915145782 Total Pages :143 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (457 download)
Book Synopsis The Meditations by : Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome)
Download or read book The Meditations written by Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) and published by Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include a translator's introduction, selected bibliography, note on the text, glossary of technical terms, biographical index, and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius -- books 1-12.
Book Synopsis Meditations of First Philosophy by : René Descartes
Download or read book Meditations of First Philosophy written by René Descartes and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most outstanding books ever written on philosophy. It touches the questions regarding God and the human soul and seeks truth in science. The reader passes through stages of meditation with the assistance of a unique narrator. It provokes deep thoughts amongst the readers. Magnificent and incredible ...
Book Synopsis Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Descartes and The Meditations by : Gary Carl Hatfield
Download or read book Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Descartes and The Meditations written by Gary Carl Hatfield and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Descartes's Meditations by : Catherine Wilson
Download or read book Descartes's Meditations written by Catherine Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Book Synopsis Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus by : Stanley Tweyman
Download or read book Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus written by Stanley Tweyman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the excellent and popular translation by Haldane and Ross of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, an introduction by Stanley Tweyman which explores the relevance of Descartes' Regulae and his method of analysis in the Meditations, and six articles which indicate the diversity of scholarly opinion on the topic of method in Descartes' philosopy.
Book Synopsis Discourse on Method and Meditations by : Rene Descartes
Download or read book Discourse on Method and Meditations written by Rene Descartes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two works from the father of modern philosophy. In Discourse on Method, he formulated a scientific approach comprising four principles, including to accept only what reason recognizes as "clear and distinct." In Meditations, he explores the mind/body distinction, the nature of truth and error, the existence of God, and the essence of material things.
Download or read book Silencing the Demon’s Advocate written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that many problems of interpretation including notorious problems of circularity, arise from a failure to recognise that Descartes' strategy for the attainment of certainty is not to add support for his beliefs, but to subtract grounds for doubt.
Book Synopsis The Poetry of John Paul II by : Pope John Paul II
Download or read book The Poetry of John Paul II written by Pope John Paul II and published by USCCB Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publication No. 5-556"--Page facing title page Contents: The stream -- Meditations on the book of Genesis at the threshold of the Sistine Chapel -- A hill in the land of Moriah.
Book Synopsis Meditations from a Movable Chair by : Andre Dubus
Download or read book Meditations from a Movable Chair written by Andre Dubus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-04-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-five luminous and intensely personal essays in this collection are, like Andre Dubus's celebrated short stories, a testament to the author's vulnerability, vision, and indestructible faith. Since losing one leg and the use of the other in a 1986 accident, Dubus has experienced despair, learned acceptance, and, finally, found joy in the sacramental magic of even the most quotidian tasks. Whether he is writing of the relationship with his father, the rape of his beloved sister, his Catholic faith, the suicide of a gay naval officer, his admiration for fellow writers like Hemingway and Mailer, or the simple act of making sandwiches for his daughters' lunchboxes, Dubus cuts straight to the heart of things. Here we have a master at the height of his powers, an artist whose work "is suffused with grace, bathed in a kind of spiritual glow" (The New York Times Book Review).
Book Synopsis Mysteries of Light by : John Paul II
Download or read book Mysteries of Light written by John Paul II and published by . This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysteries of Light: Meditations on the Mysteries of the Rosary offers simple meditations written by Pope John Paul II on each of the 20 mysteries of the rosary, along with stunning 25 color illustrations (icons) woven throughout the text. Icon reproductions are taken from Helen Protopapadakis-Papaconstantinou's collection and make this book a beautiful and thoughtful prayer book and marvelous gift-giving idea.
Author :Pope John Paul II Publisher :Rizzoli International Publications ISBN 13 :9780847836703 Total Pages :736 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (367 download)
Book Synopsis Love Is the Explanation of Everything by : Pope John Paul II
Download or read book Love Is the Explanation of Everything written by Pope John Paul II and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational collection of meditations, reflections, and aphorisms is drawn from Pope John Paul II's writings, both from his unpublished personal archives as well as from published works, including sermons given during pastoral visits, official interviews, Youth Day messages, and encyclicals.
