![]() ![]() His Copernicanism, put forth posthumously in The World, would require just such a defense. ![]() This is especially clear in the Meditations, not only in the obsequiousness of the Letter of Dedication, but also in the specific mode of argument, which does not seek merely to found science upon grounds acceptable to religious authority, but to specifically found a mathematical science one which clearly privileges mathematical demonstrations even over common sense judgments based upon everyday and constant experience. It seems that Descartes must have had this, in part at least, in mind when writing his more famous philosophical works. That work, The World, was only published after Descartes’ death. Download cover art Download CD case insert Meditations on First PhilosophyĪfter several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his contemporary, Galileo, was charged with heresy. ![]()
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