MEDITATIONS First Philosophy is made up of six meditations,inwhich Descartes First discards all belief in things which are notabsolutely certain, and then tries to establish what can be knownfor sure. The meditations were written as if he were mcditatingfor
6 days: each meditation refers to the last one as"yesterday".
In Ethics, Spinoza attempts to demonstrate a "fully cohesivephilosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture ofreality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethicallife." Althoughit was published posthumously in 1677, it is his most famous work,and is considered his magnum opus.
【作者简介】
RENE DESCARTES (1596-1650), a French philosopher and writerwho has been called the "Father of Modern Philosophy," and inparticular, his Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be astandard text at most university philosophy departments.
Descartes is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement"Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am; or I do think,therefore I do exist).
BARUCH DE SPINOZA (1632,-1677) was a Dutch philosopher. By layingthe groundwork for the i8th century Enlightenment and modernbiblical criticism, he came to be considered one of the greatrationalist's of the 17th-century philosophy Gilles Delouse nameshim "the prince of philosophers."
【目录】
MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE TO THE READER
SYNOPSIS OF THE SIX FOLLOWING MEDITATIONS
MEDITATION I OF THE THINGS OF WHICH WE
MAY DOUBT
MEDITATION II OF THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN
MIND; AND THAT IT IS MORE EASILY KNOWN
THAN THE BODY
MEDITATION III OF GOD: THAT HE EXISTS
MEDITATION IV OF TRUTH AND ERROR
MEDITATION V OF THE ESSENCE OF
MATERIAL THINGS; AND, AGAIN, OF GOD;
THAT HE EXISTS
MEDITATION VI OF THE EXISTENCE OF MATERIAL
THINGS,AND OF THE REAL DISTINCTION
BETWEEN THE MIND AND BODY OF MAN
PART I CONCERNING GOD
PART II OF THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF
THE MIND
PART III ON THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF
THE EMOTIONS
PARTIV OF HUMAN BONDAGE OR THE STRENGTH OF THE EMOTIONS
PART V ON THE POWER OF THE UNDERSTANDING,OR OF HUMAN
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