Starting with Descartes /
René Descartes was the founding father of modern Western philosophy and a pivotal thinker in the history of this subject. Covering all the key concepts of his work, Starting with Descartes provides an introduction to the ideas of this philosopher. Thematically structured, the book leads the reader t...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Descartes and his project
- The first meditation: methodological doubt
- The second meditation: the cogito
- The third meditation: the causal argument for god's existence
- A brief interlude
- The fourth meditation: explaining the possibility of error
- The fifth meditation: the ontological argument for god's existence
- The sixth meditation: the world's existence.
