TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarkar,Husain
TI  - Descartes' Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck [ electronic resource ]
SN  - 9780511498305 ( e-book )
U1  - 194 21
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Early Modern Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
N2  - Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes' cogito 'I think, therefore I am'. Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is mistaken. It should, he says, be read as an intuition. Through this interpretative lens, the author reconsiders key Cartesian topics: the ideal inquirer, the role of clear and distinct ideas, the relation of these to the will, memory, the nature of intuition and deduction, the nature, content and elusiveness of 'I', and the tenability of the doctrine of the creation of eternal truths. Finally, the book demonstrates how Descartes' attempt to prove the existence of God is foiled by a new Cartesian Circle
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498305
ER  -