Descartes

Meditations - Background Source Materials

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Edited by Roger Ariew, John Cottingham and Tom Sorell

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published August 1998, 288 pages, paper

ISBN 0521485797

No single text has more importance for the history of philosophy than Descartes' Meditations. This unique collection of background material has been translated from the original French and Latin. The texts gathered here illustrate the kinds of principles, assumptions, and philosophical methods that were commonplace when Descartes was developing his ideas.

Contributors: Francisco Sanches, Christopher Clavius, Petrus Ramus, Francisco Suarez, Pierre Charron, Eustachius a Sancto Paulo, Scipion Dupleix, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, Jean de Silhon, Francois de La Mothe le Vayer, Charles Sorel, Jean-Baptiste Morin