Descartes' Meditations (Blackwell Guides to Great Works)
Contributors: Gary Hatfield (Contributor); Stephen Gaukroger (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781405118743
Subjects: Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; History & Surveys - Modern; First philosophy; Philosophy; History & Surveys - General; Europe; Meditationes de prima philosophia; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; DESCARTES, RENE, 1596-1650; Philosophy / Modern; European - General; 1596-1650.; Descartes, Renâe,
First sentence: In Descartes' Meditations (1641) epistemology takes center stage in philosophy for the first time, and it does so in an especially dramatic form, offering a mental purging of a kind previously only encountered in religious literature.