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Descartes' Meditations: Third Set of Objections (Live Reading)

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Descartes' Meditations: Third Set of Objections (Live Reading)

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We'll be starting from Latin 183

Let's go back to the drawing board with a live reading of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy!

Descartes' Meditations are a classic of philosophy typically taken as kicking off the modern period of philosophy. In the text, Descartes seeks to knock down and rebuild all of what he knows in order to finally find security in his cognitions and a path forward for securing knowledge of God and man's nature.

We welcome beginners and advanced readers alike.
Various translations are available, please select any you'd like or have around.

Text links (Amazon):
Cottingham translation (Cambridge)
Cress translation (Hackett)
Heffernan translation (English/Latin, Notre Dame)

There is also a translation by Norman Kemp Smith, but it is out of print
Digital links:
Cottingham translation (Libgen, Cambridge)
Cress translation (Libgen, Hackett)
Latin text (Project Gutenberg)

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