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Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations

By David Cunning

Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations Philosophy

Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations

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Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades. David Cunning's monograph proposes a new interpretation, which is that from beginning to end the reasoning of the Meditations is the first-person reasoning of a thinker who starts from a confused non-Cartesian paradigm and moves slowly and awkwardly toward a grasp of just a few of the central theses of Descartes' system. The meditator of the Meditations is not a full-blown Cartesian at the start or middle or even the end of inquiry, and accordingly the Meditations is riddled with confusions throughout. Cunning argues that Descartes is trying to capture the kind of reasoning that a non-Cartesian would have to engage in to make the relevant epistemic progress, and that the Meditations rhetorically models that reasoning.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2010-08-03
Publication Date:
2010-08-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195399609
ISBN13:
9780195399608
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[email protected]
Weight:
586 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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