Descartes’ Meditative Turn

Descartes’ Meditative TurnWhy would Ren Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose "meditations"a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practicefor the title of his magnum opus that lays the metaphysical foundations for his reform of all knowledge, including mathematics and sciences? Why did he believe that the immortality of the soul and the existence of God, which the Meditations on First Philosophy set out to demonstrate, can only be

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questions like whether the experience of a miracle or wonder as a counter intuitive phenomenon could be part of long-term memory

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schließlich die Ausgabe einer Erzählung der Ebner »Die eine Sekunde«

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So erreicht beispielsweise Oidipus keineswegs notwendig durch seine Selbstblendung den Status eines Sehers