The method, meditations and philosophy of Descartes
By: translated from the original texts, with a new introductory essay, historical and critical by John Veitch ; and a special introd. by Frank Sewall.
Contributors: Veitch, John, 1829-1894
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 1901
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 371
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: I. Descartes - His Life and Writings (p. 1); value: II. Philosophy Proceeding Descartes in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (p. 6); value: III. The Cogito ergo sum - Its Nature and Meaning (p. 11); value: IV. Cogito ergo sum - Objections to Principle (p. 21); value: V. That Guarantee of the Principle (p. 27); value: VI. The Criterion of Truth (p. 39); value: VII. The Ego and the Material World (p. 48); value: VIII. Innate Ideas (p. 57); value: IX. Malebranche (p. 58); value: X. Spinoza - Relations to Descartes (p. 68); value: XI. Development of Cartesianism in the Line of Spinoza - Omnis determinatio est negatio (p. 88); value: XII. Hegellan Criticism - the Ego and the Infinite (p. 107); value: Discourse on Method; value: Prefatory Note by the Author (p. 148); value: I. Various Considerations Touching the Sciences (p. 149); value: II. The Principal Rules of the Method (p. 149); value: III. Certain Rules of Morals Deduced from the Method (p. 164); value: IV. Reasons Establishing the Existence of God and of the Human Soul (p. 170); value: V. The Order of the Physical Questions Investigated In Descartes. His Explication of the Motion of the Heart and of Some Other Difficulties Pertaining to Medicine, the Difference between the Soul of Man and that of Brutes (p. 177); value: VI. What is Required in Order to Greater Advancement in the INvestigation of Nature, Reasons that Induced Descartes to Write (p. 190); value: The Meditations; value: Dedication (p. 206); value: Preface (p. 211); value: Synopsis of Meditations (p. 215); value: I. Of the Things which We may Doubt (p. 219); value: II. Of the Nature of the Human Mind, and that It IS More Easily Known than the Body (p. 214); value: III. Of God that He Exists (p. 254); value: IV. Of Truth and Error (p. 249); value: V. Of the Essence of Material Things and, Again, of God, that He Exists (p. 258); value: VI. Of the Existence of Material Things, and of the Real Distinction between the Mind and Body of Man (p. 264); value: The Principles of Philosophy; value: Preface (p. 283); value: Dedication (p. 297); value: I. Of the Principles of Human Knowledge (p. 301); value: II. Of the Principles of Material Things. Sects. i. to xxv (p. 333); value: III. Of the Visible World. Sects i. to iii. (p. 345); value: IV. Of the Earth. Sects clxxxviii. to ccviii (p. 347); value: Appendix; value: Reasons which Establish the Existence of God, and the Distinction between the Mind and Body of Man, Disposed in Geometrical Order (p. 363)