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of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
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Meditations on First Philosophy
with Selections from the Objections and Replies
René Descartes
Translated by Michael Moriarty
336 pages
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196x129mm
978-0-19-280696-3
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Paperback
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08 May 2008
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- A new translation of one of the most influential texts in the history of Western philosophy, including substantial selections from the important Objections and Replies.
- The translation pays particular attention to Descartes's terminology and style, with its elaborate but beautifully lucid syntax, careful balancing, and rhetorical signposting. It includes the Third and Fourth Objections and Replies in full, with extracts from the rest.
- Wide-ranging and accessible introduction places the work in the intellectual context of the time and discusses the nature of the work, its structure, key issues, and its influence on later thinkers.
- The notes clarify the text, indicate points of difficulty and nuances of Descartes's vocabulary.
- The text is referenced throughout to the page numbers of the standard edition (Adam and Tannery) which all Descartes scholarship refers to.
- The edition includes an up-to-date bibliography, chronology, and index.
'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished'
In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, the thinker rejects all his former beliefs in the quest for new certainties. Discovering his own existence as a thinking entity in the very exercise of doubt, he goes on to prove the existence of God, who guarantees his clear and distinct ideas as a means of access to the truth. He develops new conceptions of body and mind, capable of serving as
foundations for the new science of nature. Subsequent philosophy has grappled with Descartes's legacy, questioning many of its conclusions and even his basic approach, but his arguments set the agenda for many of the greatest philosophical thinkers, and their fascination endures.
This new translation includes the Third and Fourth Objections and Replies in full, and a selection from the rest of these exchanges with Descartes's contemporaries that helped to expound his philosophy.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: Readers and students of philosophy, Western philosophy, the history of philosophy, seventeenth-century French culture and ideas, French literature.
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René Descartes Translated by Michael Moriarty, Centenary Professor of French Literature and Thought, Queen Mary, University of London
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