Descartes' cogito: saved from the great shipwreck
Auteur :
Sarkar, Husain
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521821667
Date de publication :
27 févr. 2003
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
567 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes' cogito 'I think, therefore I am'. Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is mistaken. It should, he says, be read as an intuition.