Descartes' Meditations: Background Source Materials (Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521485797 ISBN 13: 9780521485791

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This unique collection of background material to Descartes' Meditations 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 Rameé (Petrus Ramus), Francisco Suarez, Pierre Charron, Eustachius a Sancto Paulo, Scipion Dupleix, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, François de la Mother le Vayer, Charles Sorel, and Jean-Baptiste Morin.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French, Latin

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521485797
• ISBN 13: 9780521485791
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Ariew Roger, Cottingham John, Sorell Tom