Descartes' Meditations
Subtitle: Background Source Materials (Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context)
Contributors: Roger Ariew (Editor); John Cottingham (Editor); Tom Sorell (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521485791
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Philosophy; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; 17th century; Sources; Metaphysics; Literary Criticism; Meditationes de prima philosop; History & Surveys - Modern; Descartes, Renae, --1596-1650.--Meditationes; Descartes, Renâe,--1596-1650.--Meditationes de prima philosophia; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; 1596-1650; Philosophy, Modern; Descartes, Rene,; First philosophy
First sentence: A teacher in various colleges in Paris for most of his adult life, Petrus Ramus (or Pierre de la Ramee, 1515-1572) was known as a strong critic of Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition in the university curriculum, and as a constructive philosopher interested in "logic" and "method" as well as rhetoric.