If you cant read the original Latin then by all means get your hands on a good translation. We are conciousness beings, and few books bring the implications of that fact more vividly to live than the 'Meditations'. Despite these differences, the two thinkers shared much common ground with respect to the mechanical understanding of physics. The 'Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy' is a monument of achievement in modern philosophy. In his objections, Hobbes primarily critiqued what he took to be the scholastic assumptions that pervaded Descartes’ dualist metaphysics of substance. At the request of the French Philosopher, Marin Marsenne, Hobbes wrote a series of Objections to Descartes’ Meditations, which were published with other objections and Descartes’s replies in 1641. REN DESCARTES A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One’s Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences Translated with an Introduction and Notes by IAN MACLEAN 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
His groundbreaking work in rationalist philosophical methodology, epitomized in his Discourse on Method and his Meditations on First Philosophy, has resulted in Descartes’s popular status as the ‘Father of Modern Philosophy.’ Hobbes interacted and corresponded with Descartes during his 1640-1651 sojourn in Paris, when he had fled England in fear of persecution from the anti-Royalist forces who were then in ascendancy in England. René Descartes, who lived from 1596 to 1650, was a supremely influential figure in the histories of philosophy, science, mathematics, and music. Original title page for the first Latin edition of the Meditationes de prima philosophiaby René Descartes, 1641.
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