Descartes' Meditations
Background Source Materials
Roger Ariew editor Tom Sorell editor John Cottingham editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:28th Jul '98
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- Paperback£47.99(9780521485791)
Texts translated from the French and Latin serve to illustrate the context of the writing of Descartes' Meditations.
No single text could be considered more important in the history of philosophy than Descartes' Meditations. This unique collection of background material to this magisterial philosophical text has been translated from the original French and Latin. The texts gathered here illustrate the kinds of principles, assumptions, and philosophical methods that were commonplace when Descartes was growing up. The selections are from: Francisco Sanches, Christopher Clavius, Pierre de la Ramee (Petrus Ramus), Francisco Suárez, Pierre Charron, Eustachius a Sancto Paulo, Scipion Dupleix, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, Jean de Silhon, François de la Mothe le Vayer, Charles Sorel, and Jean-Baptiste Morin.
"With its crisp translations, its clear introductions to often obscure primary sources, and its pedagogical concern to link these texts to perennial issues in interpreting the Meditations, this sourcebook should serve as an excellent text in a graduate or honors seminar focused on Descartes." International Philosophical Quarterly
ISBN: 9780521481267
Dimensions: 236mm x 158mm x 24mm
Weight: 564g
292 pages