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

by John Cottingham (Editor), Tom Sorell (Editor), Roger Ariew (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  1998

  $122.56

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

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $49.78

  No single text could be considered more important in the history of philosophy than Descartes' Meditations. This unique collection of background material to this magisterial philosophical text has been translated from the original French and Latin. The texts gathered here illustrate the kinds of principles, assumptions, and philosophical methods that were commonplace when Descartes was growing up. The selections are from: Francisco Sanches, Christopher Clavius, Pierre de la Ramee (Petrus Ramus), Francisco Suarez, Pierre Charron, Eustachius a Sancto Paulo, Scipion Dupleix, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, Jean de Silhon, Francois de la Mothe le Vayer, Charles Sorel, and Jean-Baptiste Morin.