Meditations on First Philosophy

• Publisher:  Libravox.org
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• Publication Date:   1650
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   B001UONZ5C
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AUDIO BOOK MP3 OR COMPATIBLE MP3 CD PLAYER ONLY WELCOME TO ALL IN DEALS! This audio book can be played on an MP3 player or a compatible MP3 DVD or MP3 compatible CD player. MP3 audio books will not play on regular CD players. We are confident you will love this audio book. Book is in the public domain and read by volunteers.Packaged with care, Protected by a CD sleeve. Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes (1596-1650). Translated by John Veitch (1829-1894). After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his contemporary, Galileo, was charged with heresy. That work, The World, was only published after Descartes death. It seems that Descartes must have had this, in part at least, in mind when writing his more famous philosophical works. This is especially clear in the Meditations, not only in the obsequiousness of the Letter of Dedication, but also in the specific mode of argument, which does not seek merely to found science upon grounds acceptable to religious authority, but to specifically found a mathematical science; one which clearly privileges mathematical demonstrations even over common sense judgments based upon everyday and constant experience. His Copernicanism, put forth posthumously in The World, would require just such a defense. The Meditations are a central work of early modern philosophy, and play a crucial role in the conceptual development of basic perspectives and problems in the Western tradition, including substance dualism, external world skepticism, and the modern notion of the subject. (Description by D.E. Wittkower) Total running time: 3:29:09 Read by D.E. Wittkower

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