Philosophical Essays and Correspondence
A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.
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A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.
Contents:
General Introduction. Descartes: Life and Times. Principle of Selection for the Volume. A Bibliographical Note on Descartes’s Main Works. Selected Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Acknowledgments. Brief Chronology of Descartes’s Life and Works.
I. Early Works and Correspondence (to 1637). Preliminaries and Observations (1619). Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1618?-1628). To Mersenne, On the Eternal Truths (April 15, May 6, and May 27, 1630). The World or Treatise on Light [and Man] (1632). To Mersenne, About Galileo’s Condemnation (April 1634).
II. Discourse on Method (1637).
III. Correspondence (1637-1641). To Silhon, Existence of God and of the Soul (March 1637). To Plempius for Fromondus, Atomism and Mechanism (October 3, 1637). To Vatier, On the Discourse (February 22, 1638). To Regius, Knowledge of the Infinite (May 24, 1640). To Colvius, On Augustine and the Cogito (November 14, 1640). To Mersenne, The Aim of the Meditations and the Context for the Principles (December 31, 1640). To Mersenne, On J.-B. Morin’s Proof for the Existence of God (January 28, 1641).
IV. Meditations on First Philosophy (1641).
V. Objections by Some Learned Men to the Preceeding Meditations, with Replies by the Author (1641). First Set of Objections. Reply by the Author to the First Set of Objections. Reply to the Second Set of Objections. Third Set of Objections, by a Famous English Philosopher, with the Author’s Replies. Fourth Set of Objections, by Antoine Arnauld, Doctor of Theology. Reply to the Fourth Set of Objections. Sixth Set of Objections. Reply to the Sixth Set of Objections.
VI. Correspondence (1641-1644). To Mersenne, Idea Defined and Discussed (July 1641). To Gibieuf, Ideas and Abstraction (January 19, 1642). To Buitendijck, Possibility of Doubting God’s Existence (1643). To Elisabeth, Primitive Notions (May 21 and June 28, 1643). To Mesland, On Freedom (May 2, 1644).
VII. Principles of Philosophy (1644-1647).
VIII. Late Works and Correspondence (1645 On). To Mesland, On Freedom (February 9, 1645). To Clerselier, Concerning Principles (June or July 1646). To the Marquis of Newcastle, About Animals (November 23, 1646). To Chanut, On Nicholas Cusa and the Infinite (June 6, 1647). Notes Against a Program (1648). To More, Replies to Objections (February 5, 1649). The Passions of the Soul (1649). The Search After Truth by the Light of Nature (1641?-1649?).
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