Descartes 'Meditations' Source Matl: Background Source Materials (Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context)
Cambridge University Press, 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521485791, ISBN10: 0521485797
Paperback, 292 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
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.
Introduction
1. That nothing is known Francisco Sanches
2. The promotion of mathematics Christopher Clavius
3. Dialectic Petrus Ramus
4. Metaphysical disputations Francisco Suárez
5. Wisdom Pierre Charron
6. A compendium of philosophy in four parts Eustachius a Sancto Paulo
7. Corpus of philosophy Scipion Dupleix
8. The use of reason
the impiety of the deists
the truth of the sciences Marin Mersenne
9. Unorthodox essays against the Aristotelians Pierre Gassendi
10. The two truths
the immortality of the soul Jean de Silhon
11. Dialogue on the diversity of religions
little skeptical treatise François de La Mothe le Vayer
12. Universal science Charles Sorel
13. That God exists Jean-Baptiste Morin
Appendix
condemnations of Cartesianism
Notes
Bibliography
Comparative table of passages from Meditations.