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Silencing the Demon's Advocate : The Strategy of Descartes' Meditations /

This book attempts to explain The Meditations (1641), a classic of Western philosophy in which Descartes tries to reach a predetermined end ("perfect certainty") by means of a definite method ("the method of doubt"). The author argues that many problems of interpretation-includin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rubin, Ronald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1 Doubt
  • 2 Certainty and Stability
  • 3 Method
  • 4 The Riddle of the Cogito
  • 5 From Self to God
  • 6 The Validation of Intuition
  • 7 Clarity and Distinctness
  • 8 God's Essence and Existence
  • 9 Mind and Body
  • 10 Empirical Knowledge
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index