Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes's foundational 1641 philosophical work, printed in its first Latin edition by Michael Soly in Paris, is the primary text in which Descartes develops his method of systematic doubt and his cogito argument. Its strength is that it is the primary philosophical text itself, from its actual first printing. Its limit is that a seventeenth century Latin printing is not the edition most readers encounter directly; a claim about specific wording should be checked against a vetted modern scholarly translation alongside the original.
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Rene Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, first printed in its 1641 Latin edition by Michael Soly in Paris, the top tier reflecting the primary philosophical text itself, in which Descartes develops his method of systematic doubt and his cogito argument, from its actual first printing. Its limit is that a seventeenth century Latin printing is not the edition most readers encounter directly; a claim about specific wording should be checked against a vetted modern scholarly translation alongside the original. NotesDescartes's own primary text developing the method of systematic doubt and the cogito argument.
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AuthorRene Descartes
PublisherMichael Soly, Paris
1641 first Latin edition, "apud Michaelem Soly, via Jacobaea sub signo Phoenicis". The 1642 Amsterdam second edition (Louis Elzevir) added the Objections and Replies. Publication Year1641
Source Typeprimary-text
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