Meditations on First Philosophy

'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.

ISBN 0192806963   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780192806963 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 250 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series title Oxford World's Classics Publication date 08 May 2008   Height (mm) 196 Translator Michael Moriarty   Width (mm) 129 Library of Congress 2007044519   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 194   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		List of Abbreviations
		Note on the Text and Translation
		Select Bibliography
		A Chronology of Rene Descartes
		Meditations On First Philosophy		1
		Letter of Dedication		3
		Preface to the Reader		7
		Synopsis of the following Six Meditations		10
		First Meditation		13
		Second Meditation		17
		Third Meditation		25
		Fourth Meditation		38
		Fifth Meditation		45
		Sixth Meditation		51
		The Objections and Replies		65
		Introduction		67
		First Objections and Replies		74
		Second Objections and Replies		85
		Third Objections		107
		Fourth Objections and Replies		125
		Fifth Objections and Replies		166
		Sixth Objections and Replies		199
		Seventh Objections		214
		Explanatory Notes		232
		Index		273

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