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Meditations, Objections, And Replies

ISBN: 9780872207981 | 0872207986
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Pub. Date: 3/30/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
Among the strengths of this edition are reliable, accessible translations, useful editorial materials, and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the Objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, and Descartes' Replies, in their entirety. 'The Letter Serving as a Reply to Gassendi' -- in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies -- conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating general Introducti... MORE
Introductionvii
The Meditations and the Objections and Replies
vii
Selected Bibliography
xx
... MOREAcknowledgments
xxi
Chronology of Descartes' Life and Works
xxii
Meditations on First Philosophy1(50)
Letter of Dedication
1(3)
Preface to the Reader
4(2)
Synopsis of the Meditations
6(3)
Meditation One: Concerning Those Things That Can Be Called Into Doubt
9(4)
Meditation Two: Concerning the Nature of the Human Mind: That It Is Better Known than the Body
13(6)
Meditation Three: Concerning God, That He Exists
19(10)
Meditation Four: Concerning the True and the False
29(6)
Meditation Five: Concerning the Essence of Material Things, And Again Concerning God, That He Exists
35(5)
Meditation Six: Concerning the Existence of Material Things, and the Real Distinction between Mind and Body
40(11)
Objections by Some Learned Men to the Preceding Meditations, with Replies by the Author51(130)
First Set of Objections
51(7)
Reply by the Author to the First Set of Objections
58(12)
Second Set of Objections
70(5)
Reply to the Second Set of Objections
75(25)
Third Set of Objections, by a Famous English Philosopher, with the Author's Replies
100(15)
Fourth Set of Objections: A Letter to the Distinguished Gentleman
115(15)
Reply to the Fourth Set of Objections
130(24)
Announcement by the Author Regarding the Fifth Set of Objections
154(1)
Letter from Descartes to Clerselier Serving as a Reply to a Selection of the Principal Counter-Objections Made by Gassendi Against the Preceding Replies
155(7)
Sixth Set of Objections
162(5)
Reply to the Sixth Set of Objections
167(14)
Index181


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