Corpo e consciência: Merleau-Ponty, crítico de Descartes

Pós-graduação em Filosofia - FFC

Arquimedes, Pappus, Descartes e Polya - Quatro episódios da história da heurística. -

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Geschichte der neuern Philosophie : Descartes und seine Schule.

T.2 has imprint: Heidelberg, F. Basserman.

La géométrie de René Descartes.

Available on demand as hard copy or computer file from Cornell University Library.

La correspondance de Descartes dans les inédits de fonds Libri : étudiée pour l'histoire des mathématiques /

Includes bibliographical references,

Œuvres de Descartes,

With reproductions of original title-pages.

French and English philosophers : Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes ; with introductions and notes.

Discourse on the method of rightly conducting the reason and seeking the truth in the sciences, by Rene Descartes.--Letters on the English, by Voltaire.--A discourse upon the origin and the foundation of the inequality among mankind. Profession of faith of a Savoyard vicar. By J. J. Rousseau.--Of man, being the first part of Leviathan, by T. Hobbes.

French and English philosophers : Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes ; with introductions and notes.

Discourse on the method of rightly conducting the reason and seeking the truth in the sciences / by René Descartes -- Letters on the English / by Voltaire -- On the inequality among mankind. Profession of faith of a Savoyard vicar / by J. J. Rousseau -- Of man, being the first part of Leviathan / by Thomas Hobbes.

La morale de Descartes.

Thèse--Univ. de Dijon.

The Method, Meditations, and selections from the Principles of Descartes,

Tr. of: Discours sur lamethode

Descartes' Lehre von den Leidenshaften : ihre Darstellung nebst einer kritischen Untersuchung der Frage: "In welchem Zusammenhange steht jene mit seinen Lehren in der Metaphysik?" /

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Rostock, 1892.

The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes /

Spine title: The philosophy of Descartes.

La pensée religieuse de Descartes,

"Cet essai est une thése de l'Ecole pratique des hautes études.--Avantpropos.

S. Thomas d'Aquin et la philosophie Cartésienne; Etudes de doctrines comparées

Mode of access: Internet.

Certainty or Faith? Arendt's and Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Cartesian Foundationalism

Epistemological foundationalism has for centuries attempted to unify all scientific inquiry into the context of one grand science, the first philosophy. One of the most important tasks of this tradition has been to ground all knowledge on absolutely certain foundations. In this master s thesis I ask the following question: To what extent and under what conditions is it possible to achieve absolute certainty in the sense of the attempts of Cartesian foundationalism? By examining how the 20th century philosophers, Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) interpret the epistemological methodology of René Descartes, I claim that the Cartesian achievement of absolute certainty rests on the implicit presupposition of an epistemologically prior form of faith in the world and trust (pistis) in other conscious beings. I show that knowledge is possible only within the context of a common world that is inhabited by several conscious beings that share a common linguistic system. This threefold element is shown to be the bedrock condition for any kind of philosophical inquiry. The main literature sources for this thesis are The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt, Le Visible et l invisible by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Meditationes de Prima Philosophiae by René Descartes and Erfahrung und Urteil by Edmund Husserl.