Newly Discovered Draft of Descartes’ Meditations
H/T to Stephen Hicks. Write-up in Research Frontiers. Bernard WilliamsDescartesJeremy HymanMeditations on First Philosophymodern philosophy
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Who was the first modern philosopher?
Steven Nadler reviews Grayling’s latest. anthony graylingAristotleChristianityDavid HumeDescartesleibnizmodern philosophyPhilosophyspinozasteven nadler
The Desecularization of Descartes
John Cottingham’s discussion of Descartes has resonance to the way Locke has been treated in the academy. I was astounded going back some 30 years that Locke could be so blithely discussed on a political philosophy course (UCL) with no mention of the vital role God has in his system of ideas — The Reasonableness of…
René Descartes
Born on this day. The following extract from Bernard Williams’ brilliant (but dense) Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry. René Descartes was born on 31 March 1596 in a small town near Tours, now called la-Haye-Descartes, where the house of his birth can still be seen. His family belonged to the lesser nobility, his father and…
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