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Descartes - An Analytic and Historical Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Descartes - An Analytic and Historical Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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A solid grasp of the main themes and arguments of the
seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes is essential for
understanding modern thought, and a necessary entree to the work of
the Empiricists and Immanuel Kant. It is also crucial to the study
of contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.
This new edition of Georges Dicker's commentary on Descartes's
masterpiece, Meditations on First Philosophy, features a new
chapter on the Fourth Meditation and improved treatments of the
famous cogito ergo sum and the notorious problem of the Cartesian
Circle, among numerous other improvements and updates. Clear and
accessible, it serves as an introduction to Descartes's ideas for
undergraduates and as a sophisticated companion to his Meditations
for advanced readers. 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.
Dicker offers his own 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. The
commentary also incorporates a wealth of recent Descartes
scholarship, and inculcates - but does not presuppose - knowledge
of the methods of contemporary analytic philosophy.
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