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2nd ed. |
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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This study serves as an introduction to Descartes's ideas and as a sophisticated companion to his 'Meditations'. The volume provides a thorough discussion of several basic issues of epistemology and metaphysics elicited from the main themes and arguments of the 'Meditations'. It also delves into the work's historical background and critical reception. It offers assessments of the Cartesian Doubt, the cogito, the causal and ontological proofs of God's existence, Cartesian freedom and theodicy, Cartesian Dualism, and Descartes's views about the existence and nature of the material world. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Meditation I and the Method of Doubt -- 1. Descartes's Goal -- 2. Cartesian Doubt -- 3. Is The Cartesian Doubt Self-Refuting? -- 3.1. Deceptiveness of the Senses -- 3.2. Dream Argument -- 3.3. Deceiver Argument -- 2. Meditation II: The Cogito and the Self -- 1. Descartes's "I Am Thinking, Therefore I Exist" -- 2. Certainty Of One's Own Thoughts -- 3. Problem For The Cogito -- 4. Substance Theory -- 5. Reconstruction Of The Cogito Based On The Substance Theory -- 6. Critical Discussion Of The Reconstructed Cogito -- 6.1. Substance Theory and the Argument from Change -- 6.2. Corollary -- 6.3. Assumption That Thoughts Are Properties -- 6.4. Inference to "I Exist" -- 7. Defense Of The Unreconstructed COGITO -- 8. Does The Unreconstructed COGITO Require An Additional Premise? -- 9. Descartes's Conception Of The Self -- 10. Cartesian Dualism -- 3. Meditation III: The Criterion of Truth and the Existence of God -- 1. Descartes's Criterion Of Truth -- 2. Project Of Meditation III -- 3. From The Idea Of God To God -- 3.1. Nature of Ideas -- 3.2. Objective Reality and Formal Reality -- 3.3. Core Argument -- 3.4. Central Argument of Meditation III: The Subargument, the Core Argument, and the Sequel -- 4. Criticisms Of Descartes's Central Argument In Meditation III -- 4.1. Subargument -- 4.1.1. Precontainment Principle -- 4.1.2. Degrees of Reality -- 4.1.3. Justifying the Causal Maxim -- 4.2. Problem of the Cartesian Circle -- 4.2.1. Restriction of the Doubt to Past Clear and Distinct Perceptions Defense -- 4.2.2. General Rule Defense -- 4.2.3. Radical Doubt of Reason and the Creation of the Eternal Truths -- 4.2.4. Validation of Reason -- 4.3. Final Criticism of the Core Argument -- 4. Meditation IV: Error, Freedom, and Evil -- 1. Issues Of The Fourth Meditation -- 2. Error And The Will -- 3. Some Possible Objections -- 3.1. Assenting and Deciding to Believe -- 3.2. Irresistibility and Freedom -- 4. Coherence Of Cartesian Freedom -- 5. Descartes's Troubling Letter To Mesland -- 6. Error And Evil -- 6.1. Problem of Evil -- 6.2. Cartesian Theodicy -- 6.3. Some Critical Reflections -- 5. Meditation V: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God -- 1. Descartes's Ontological Argument -- 2. Critique Of The Ontological Argument -- 2.1. Gaunilo's Objection -- 2.2. Kant's Objection -- 2.3. Further Consideration of Kant's Objection -- 2.4. Caterus's Objection -- 3. Some Implications For Descartes's System -- 6. Meditation VI: Dualism and the Material World -- 1. Scope Of Meditation VI -- 2. Descartes's Proof Of The Real Distinction Between Mind And Body -- 3. Descartes's Proof Of The Material World -- 4. Descartes On The Nature Of The Material World -- 4.1. Primary and Secondary Qualities -- 4.2. Matter, Space, and Solidity -- 4.3. Bodies as Substances versus Bodies as Modes of Substance -- 5. Dualism And The Problem Of Interaction -- 6. Assessment Of Cartesian Dualism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Meditationes de prima philosophia.
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Meditationes de prima philosophia (Descartes, René) |
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First philosophy.
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First philosophy. |
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God -- Proof, Ontological.
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God -- Proof, Ontological. |
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Methodology.
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Methodology. |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dicker, Georges, 1942- Descartes. 2nd ed. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013 9780195380323 (DLC) 2012030580 (OCoLC)809925961 |
| ISBN |
9780199701605 (electronic book) |
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0199701601 (electronic book) |
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9780190267452 |
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0190267453 |
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9780195380323 |
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0195380320 |
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0199701601 |
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