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New. 1591021022. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED 248 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. ----DESCRIPTION: --"Huet (1630-1721) produced the most sustained and focused critique of Descartes' thought to date, says Lennon (philosophy, U. Of Western Ontario), but his Censura Philosophiae Cartesianae vanished into almost total obscurity after his death. He notes that it parallels the interests of modern scholars by focusing on doubt, the cogito, criteria of truth, Meditations, and other abstract notions, rather than on his physics. He includes Huet's notes and adds his own, and provides an introduction and index of names."-Book News--French philosophy in the latter half of the seventeenth century was dominated by reactions to Rene Descartes. So influential was his philosophical legacy that it was practically impossible to write or discuss philosophy without taking a position in regard to the Cartesian worldview. Most later philosophers either adapted Descartes's approach to fit other points of view or they criticized aspects of Descartes's philocophy that were perceived to threaten more traditional approaches to philosophy. In the latter camp is the "Censura Philosophiae Cartesianae", written in Latin by Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721), an erudite cleric, teacher, philosopher, and scientist, and one of the most accomplished intellectuals of the age. In the first-ever English translation of the "Censura", Thomas M. Lennon has done both historians and philosophers a great service by presenting this fully annotated edition of Huet's magnum opus. The "Censura" is the most comprehensive, unrelenting, and devastating critique of Descartes ever published. Anticipating the issues that have occupied Cartesian scholarship for the past half-century, Huet argues at length that Descartes's philosophy fails on many counts: his methodology of doubting; the reliability of his famous "cogita" ("I think, therefore I am"); clarity and distinctness as criteria of truth; his proofs for the existence of God; the circularity of his main argument in the "Meditations"; and numerous other points. Complete with an extensive introduction explaining the circumstances, history, and importance of the work; a brief biography of its fascinating author; and helpful scholarly annotations; this translation of Huet's "Censura" brings to light an important philosophical work that has been neglected for more than three hundred years. This is the first volume in the new JHP Books series, published in cooperation with the "Journal of the History of Philosophy.". --with a bonus offer--
