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Meditations on First Philosophy
Rene Descartes
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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.
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.
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الفلسفة تستخدم العقل، بينما الإيمان يستخدم القلب. وعندي أن يقوم فيلسوف بإثبات وجود الله خير من أن يقوم به رجل دين، فإن للثاني مصلحة في ذلك. وإن كان ديكارت قد أسهب في استخدام المنطق لإثبات ذلك فأعزو هذا بأن الكتاب نشر عام 1641، حيث أن العقل البشري أنذاك أقل معرفةً من عقلنا في الزمن الحالي. ومن المفيد
لا يختلف ديكارت كثيرا عن الغزالي بل ربما يكون قد سلك ديكارت سبيل الغزالي في كتابه هذا غير أن شك الغزالي كان حقيقيا وكان إلحادا كما فعل مثله الدكتور مصطفى محمود بينا شك ديكارت كان شكا أكاديميا تعليميا من باب أن يضع نفسه محل صاحب الفكرة الأخرى وهو الملحد أو الشاك في وجود الله.
وديكارت متدين بطبعه بل ود
I bought a copy of this famous book for a few francs at the Plainpalais flea market, and it had been lying on the shelf for a while. Well, I thought to myself, why not read it? The Introduction made the structure clear. First, M. Descartes presents his Meditations; then there's a series of Objection
The father of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes, was left intellectually unfulfilled after receiving one of the finest educations available in the 17th century. The result of this, and his inexhaustible curiosity, led him to travel throughout Europe, frequently changing his place of residence in sea
This treatise contains metaphysical meditations on the existence of god, the nature of the human mind and the essence and existence of material things. It was written in 1639-40 in Latin and was published in 1641 in Paris, followed by second Latin edition in 1642 in Amsterdam and a French translatio
اینکه همه چیز رو بریزیم دور و از صفر بنشینم فکر کنیم، خیلی جرات میخواد. شاید عاقلانه‌تر کار دنیا همین باشه. اینکه بودن خودم رو از فکر کردنم نتیجه بگیرم، قطعی‌ترین چیزی هست که میشه پذیرفت. دکارت از اینجا شروع می‌کنه ولی خوب پیش نمیره.
طرح کلی دکارت اینه که وجود و جوهر خودش رو بشناسه، بعد خدا رو، بعد د
دكارت در ابتدا خوب آغاز مى كنه و ميگه بايد در همه چيز شك كنم كه مبادا اعتقادى بدون دليل رو بپذيرم. و از شك مطلق سلوك فلسفى رو آغاز مى كنه. به اين شك عامدانه، ميگه "شك دستورى" يا "متدولوژيك"، در مقابل شك واقعى.
اما بعد چنان قدم هاى بدى بر ميداره كه به كلى آدم رو مأيوس مى كنه.
مثلاً ادعا می کنه که مفاهی