Meditations on First Philosophy (World Philosophers and Their Works)
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- Author: René Descartes
- First Published: 1641
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Subjects: France or French people, Psychology or psychologists, Europe or Europeans, Dreams, Seventeenth century, Metaphysics, Mathematics or mathematicians, Reason or reasoning, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists, Logic
Context
In Meditations on the First Philosophy, René Descartes delves into epistemology, or the theory of knowledge. He asks questions such as whether there is such a thing as knowledge, and if so, what distinguishes it from opinion. However, in order to answer these questions and to validate knowledge, it was necessary to raise the fundamental questions of being.
Descartes chooses to present his thoughts as meditations; he represents himself as seated before a fire in a cozy Dutch dwelling, wrapped in his dressing gown, freed from worldly care, and ready to...
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