Self, reason, and freedom in Descartes' metaphysics

✍ Scribed by Christofidou, Andrea Christofidou;Descartes, René

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Methodic doubt ; The first certainty ; Sum res ; Thought and reality ; God's existence ; Understanding & the will ; Freedom ; God's essence ; Existence of the corporeal world ; Absolute conception of reality and the real distinction ; Conclusion.

✦ Table of Contents

Methodic doubt
The first certainty
Sum res
Thought and reality
God's existence
Understanding & the will
Freedom
God's essence
Existence of the corporeal world
Absolute conception of reality and the real distinction
Conclusion.

✦ Subjects

Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650 -- Métaphysique;Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650. -- Meditationes de prima philosophia

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