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Descartes Meditation | samples of Descartes Meditations 1 and 2
Descartes has been indicated as the first modern philosopher. He is renowned for having made and important connection between geometry and algebra that brought about the solutions to geometrical problems by way of algebraic equations. He is also famous for having promoted a new conception of matter which allowed for the accounting of physical phenomena by way of mechanical explanations. However, he is most famous for having written a relatively short work, Meditationes de Prima Philosophia ( Meditations on First Philosophy), in which the Existence of God and the Distinction between Mind and Body are demonstrated. This was published in 1641 and provided a philosophical groundwork for the possibility of sciences.
Today, Descartes Meditations is by far Descartes's most popular work, though this would not have been the case in Descartes's day. Descartes Meditations opens by developing skeptical questions concerning the possibility of knowledge. Through a series of several carefully thought out meditations, six meditations to be exact, the reader establishes groundwork for the possibility of knowledge (scientia). Descartes Meditations uses skepticism as a vehicle to motivate his reader to "discover" by way of philosophical investigation what constitutes this ground.
Descartes Meditations was dedicated to the faculty of the Sorbonne, which was the divinity school of the University of Paris . Descartes was a devout Catholic and had no desire to offend the Church, though he certainly hoped to make a contribution to its understanding. There are two driving issues behind Descartes Meditations: proving the existence of God and the immortality of the soul through natural reason. Here are some samples of Descartes Meditations 1 and 2:
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