Document Type
Book Chapter
Keywords
Descartes, epistemology, phenomenology, hermeneutics, history
Disciplines
Epistemology | History of Philosophy | Other Philosophy | Philosophy
Abstract
In these extracts reflecting on Descartes’ Introduction to Meditations on First Philosophy we undertake to read between the Descartes project, reviewing Descartes’ own account of his own project. By way of a close and critical reading, the key method of any hermeneutic approach to a philosophical text, the essay seeks to explore, in a parallel to Ranke’s ideal of history as it itself actually was [eigentlich gewesen], what Descartes ‘actually’ says. In the end, this articulates Descartes’ epistemological project beyond its usual interpretative scheme.
Publication Title
Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science
Article Number
1059
Publication Date
2017
ISBN
9783110528374
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Language
English
Peer Reviewed
1
Recommended Citation
Allison, David B., "Hermeneutic Reflections on Descartes’ Introduction to His Meditations on First Philosophy" (2017). Research Resources. 59.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/phil_research/59
Version
Published
Subjects
Philosophy
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