Descartes' Meditations: Background Source Materials (Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context) - Hardcover

Descartes, Rene

 
9780521481267: Descartes' Meditations: Background Source Materials (Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context)
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ISBN 10: 0521481260 ISBN 13: 9780521481267
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Texts translated from the French and Latin serve to illustrate the context of the writing of Descartes' Meditations.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

René Descartes (1596-1650) was a pioneering metaphysician, a masterful mathematician, and a significant scientific thinker. He was primarily a mathematician throughout his life, followed by a natural scientist or "natural philosopher" and a metaphysician. He created the methods in mathematics that allowed for algebraic (or "analytic") geometry. He co-formulated the sine rule of refraction, created a significant empirical account of the rainbow, and proposed a naturalistic explanation for how the earth and planets formed in natural philosophy, among other notable accomplishments. A world of matter with a few basic properties and interacting according to a few universal principles was his new conception of the natural world, which has influenced how we think about it even today. Descartes created the contemporary interpretation of the mind-body problem by proposing that this natural world had an immaterial mind that was directly tied to the brain in humans. He offered proof for the existence of God in metaphysics, demonstrating that the nature of matter is an extension and the essence of the mind is thought. Early on, Descartes asserted that he had a unique method, which he later claimed to have used in metaphysics, natural philosophy, and many applications of mathematics.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521481260
ISBN 13 
9780521481267
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Anzahl der Seiten
292
Herausgeber
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