Descartes' meditative turn : Cartesian thought as spiritual practice /
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...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2024].
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| Series: | Cultural memory in the present.
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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.