This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi—in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies—conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating Introduction discusses the Meditations and the intellectual environment surrounding its reception.
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This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi—in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies—conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating Introduction discusses the Meditations and the intellectual environment surrounding its reception.
Contents:
Introduction
The Meditations and the Objections and Replies
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Descartes' Life and Works
Meditations on First Philosophy
Letter of Dedication
Preface to the Reader
Synopsis of the Meditations
Meditation One: Concerning Those Things That Can Be
Called Into Doubt
Meditation Two: Concerning the Nature of the Human Mind:
That It Is Better Known than the Body
Meditation Three: Concerning God,That He Exists
Meditation Four: Concerning the True and the False
Meditation Five: Concerning the Essence of Material Things,
And Again Concerning God,That He Exists
Meditation Six: Concerning the Existence of Material Things,
and the Real Distinction between Mind and Body
Objections by Some Learned Men to the Preceding
Meditations, with Replies by the Author
First Set of Objections
Reply by the Author to the First Set of Objections
Second 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: A Letter to the
Distinguished Gentleman
Reply to the Fourth Set of Objections
Announcement by the Author Regarding the Fifth Set
of Objections
Letter from Descartes to Clerselier Serving as a Reply to a
Selection of the Principal Counter-Objections Made by
Gassendi Against the Preceding Replies
Sixth Set of Objections
Reply to the Sixth Set of Objections
Index
About the Authors:
Roger Ariew is Professor of Philosophy, University of South Florida.
Donald Cress is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Parkside.