beginner's guide to Descartes's Meditations
By: Gareth Southwell
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781405158541; 9781405158558
Subjects: Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650; First philosophy; God -- Proof, Ontological
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-143) and index
Table of contents: title: Background; title: Explanation and summary of main arguments; title: Meditation I: About the things we may doubt; title: Meditation II: Of the nature of the human mind; and that it is easier to know than the body; title: Meditation III: Of God; that He exists; title: Meditation IV: Of truth and error; title: Meditation V: Of the essence of material things; and, Once more of God, that He exists; title: Meditation VI: Of the existence of material things, and of the real distinction between the soul and the body of man; title: Critical themes; title: Objections and replies; title: Certainty and doubt; title: Dualism; title: The existence of God; title: Rationalism vs. empiricism; title: Foundationalism and the Cartesian circle