{"product_id":"descartes-meditative-turn-9781503638594","title":"Descartes’ Meditative Turn","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy would René Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose \"meditations\"—a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practice—for 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 \u003ci\u003eMeditations on First Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e set out to demonstrate, can only be made self-evident through meditating? These are the question that Christopher Wild's book answers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Descartes discovered the \"foundations of a marvelous science\" through a dramatic conversion in southern Germany in the winter of 1619. The spiritual and cognitive exercises, derived from ancient philosophy and the Christian meditative tradition, which Descartes deployed in the \u003ci\u003eMeditations\u003c\/i\u003e, enable readers to discover metaphysical truths with the same degree of self-evidence with which Descartes did during his own conversion. Descartes' meditative turn, Wild argues, brings to a culmination a lifelong preoccupation with the practice or craft of thinking, known as Cartesian method. By joining meditation to method the \u003ci\u003eMeditations\u003c\/i\u003e becomes the founding document for a Cartesian \"art of turning,\" a new practice of both thought and life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher J. Wild","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42964004012150,"sku":"9781503638594","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/descartes-meditative-turn-9781503638594","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}