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3 gru 1997 · It goes regularly unnoticed that the conclusion of Descartes’ argument for the existence of an external material world leaves significant scepticism in place. Granting the success of the argument, my sensations are caused by an external material world.
- Primary and Secondary Qualities in Early Modern Philosophy
Van Cleve points to the use Kripke might make of the...
- Theory of Ideas
Ideas are among the most important items in Descartes’...
- Innateness
Our earlier example of Descartes’ a priori claim that matter...
- Ontological Argument
Descartes’ ontological (or a priori) argument is both one of...
- Descartes
Descartes’ conclusion in Meditation VI that the senses do...
- Primary and Secondary Qualities in Early Modern Philosophy
By Jack Maden | October 2023. 9-MIN BREAK. P erhaps Western philosophy’s most famous statement, “I think, therefore I am” is actually a rather confusing translation of its Latin original, cogito ergo sum. A clearer translation might be, “I am thinking, therefore I exist.”
18 cze 2001 · Descartes’ ontological (or a priori) argument is both one of the most fascinating and poorly understood aspects of his philosophy. Fascination with the argument stems from the effort to prove God’s existence from simple but powerful premises.
3 gru 2008 · Descartes’ conclusion in Meditation VI that the senses do not reveal the “essential nature” of external objects (7:83) differs from his position in the Rules. In that work, he allowed that some “simple natures” pertaining to corporeal things can be known through the images of the senses (10:383, 417).
Kartezjusz należał do rzeczypospolitej uczonych i przez cały okres pracy twórczej utrzymywał obszerną korespondencję z licznymi uczonymi w całej Europie (m.in. z Christiaanem Huygensem, Marinem Mersennem, Elżbietą księżniczką czeską, Henricusem Regiusem).
René Descartes (born March 31, 1596, La Haye, Touraine, France—died February 11, 1650, Stockholm, Sweden) was a French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher.
The displacement of final causes in Descartes is nowhere more dramatic than in his claim that God has no ends when he acts as an efficient cause in creating eternal truths.
