Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes

Gareth Matthews

Published by Cornell University Press 1992

Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes

Gareth Matthews

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501737152

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In his concise and ambitious book, Gareth B. Matthews explores the implications of doing philosophy in the first person. He focuses on the most notable attempts in the history of philosophy to take this perspective: Augustine's Confessions, perhaps the first significant autobiography in Western culture, and Soliloquies, a dialogue between himself and reason; and Descartes's Meditations and Discourse on Method. By examining the first-personalization of philosophy in these two historical figures, he writes, we can learn something important about our own philosophical options, and about those of any other thinker who dares, philosophically, to say I.

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Gareth Matthews is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Translations, Sources, and Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
1. ‘I*’ Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Cartesian Cogito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
3. The Augustinian Cogito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
4. My Mind and I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
5. The Epistemological Dream Problem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
6. The Metaphysical Dream Problem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
7. Present-Moment Dream Skepticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
8. The Moral Dream Problem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
9. The Problem of Other Minds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
10. Descartes’s Internalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
11. Augustine on Outside Authority Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
12. Augustine on the Teacher Within Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
13. God as Guarantor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
14. Thought’s Ego Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Appendix: The Rational Reconstruction of Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
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- Main content: 240
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: May 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501737152