Title: J.-B. Morin and the <i>Second Objections</i>
Abstract:Of the seven sets of objections to the Meditations, two stand out as being a bit different, the Second and the Sixth. In every other case we can identify one person, a philosopher or a theologian, who...Of the seven sets of objections to the Meditations, two stand out as being a bit different, the Second and the Sixth. In every other case we can identify one person, a philosopher or a theologian, who is the author of those objections. In the case of the Second and the Sixth, though, we are dealing with objections that have been collected by one person, the ever-present Father Mersenne, but that purport to represent the work of a number of other scholars, who remain unidentified. For most purely philosophical purposes, this does not matter a great deal; after all, an idea is an idea, whoever happens to have it, and if what is important is just the confrontation of ideas with one another, then the particular identity of the authors in question, those who contributed to these two sets of objections, is relatively unimportant.Read More
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-11-20
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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