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  title info:
    title: Descartes' meditative turn
    sub title: Cartesian thought as spiritual practice
  name:
    name part: Wild, Christopher J.
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Why would Rene Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose "meditations," a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practice, for the title of his magnum opus that lays the metaphysical foundations for his reform of all knowledge, including mathematics and sciences? Why did he believe that the immortality of the soul and the existence of God, which the Meditations on First Philosophy set out to demonstrate, can only be made self-evident through meditating? These are the question that Christopher Wild's book answers. Descartes discovered the "foundations of a marvelous science" through a dramatic conversion in southern Germany in the winter of 1619. The spiritual and cognitive exercises, derived from ancient philosophy and the Christian meditative tradition, which Descartes deployed in the Meditations, enable readers to discover metaphysical truths with the same degree of self-evidence with which Descartes did during his own conversion. Descartes' meditative turn, Wild argues, brings to a culmination a life-long preoccupation with the practice or craft of thinking, known as Cartesian method. By joining meditation to method the Meditations becomes the founding document for a Cartesian "art of turning," a new practice of both thought and life.
  table of contents: Introduction : Descartes' meditative turn and the tradition of spiritual exercises -- Founding first philosophies : Descartes' conversion -- Method and meditation : the Cartesian art of turning -- The discernment of ideas and the evidence of the cogito -- Cartesian ceroplastics : meditating the mediality of the mind -- Adversio, animadversio, and attentio : turning toward God -- "To gaze with wonder and adoration" : contemplatio Dei and meditative ascent.
  note: Christopher J. Wild.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Descartes, René
      name part: 1596-1650
  subject:
    topic: Meditation
    topic: Christianity
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  classification: B1854 .W54 2024
  classification: 194
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230829
    record change date: 20240503133414.8
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