The phrase Cogito ergo sum is not used in Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy but the term " the cogito " is ( often confusingly ) used to refer to an argument from it.

* R. Descartes ( translated by John Cottingham ), Meditations on First Philosophy, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes vol.

I Am: Eucharistic Meditations on the Gospel, Alba House Publishing 2001 ISBN 0-8189-0890-4

* Ortega Y Gasset, Jose, Meditations on Hunting, Montague, MI, Wilderness Adventures Books, 1995, ISBN 1-885106-18-1

Libre Culture: Meditations on Free Culture.

Marcus Aurelius ' Stoic tome Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty, describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration.

Marcus ' own Meditations offer a window on his inner life, but are largely undateable, and make few specific references to worldly affairs.

Alexander's influence — an emphasis on matter over style, on careful wording, with the occasional Homeric quotation — has been detected in Marcus ' Meditations.

* 1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.

A view supported by René Descartes He issues this idea in his Meditations on First Philosophy.

Meditations on First Philosophy.

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, on the other hand, can be best thought of as the philosophical reflections of an emperor divided between his philosophical aspirations and the duty he felt to defend the Roman Empire from its external enemies through his various military campaigns.

In particular, his Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments.

In 1641 he published a metaphysics work, Meditationes de Prima Philosophia ( Meditations on First Philosophy ), written in Latin and thus addressed to the learned.

The first two of his Meditations on First Philosophy, those that formulate the famous methodic doubt, are the portion of Descartes writings that most influenced modern thinking.

Meditationes de prima philosophia ( Meditations on First Philosophy ), also known as Metaphysical Meditations.

Meditations on First Philosophy.

Descartes ' demon: A dialogical analysis of ' Meditations on First Philosophy.

* More easily readable versions of Meditations, Objections and Replies, Principles of Philosophy, Discourse on the Method, Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth, and Passions of the Soul.

The linking of this with the bearing of the cross in the Passion, and the miraculous appearance of the image only occurs around 1380, in the internationally popular book Meditations on the life of Christ.

* René Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy is originally published.

His important works include a series of sermons to the novices of St. Augustine Monastery, including Prayers and Meditations on the Life of Christ, Meditations on the Incarnation of Christ, Of True Compunction of Heart, Soliloquy of the Soul, Garden of Roses, Valley of Lilies, and a Life of St. Lidwina of Schiedam.

It was formally introduced to Western philosophy by Descartes in the 17th century in his Meditations on First Philosophy.

He elaborated these beliefs in such works as Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.

He submitted to various eminent Parisian thinkers a manuscript copy of the Meditations on First Philosophy, and defended its orthodoxy against numerous clerical critics.

One notable application of the identity of indiscernibles was by René Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy.

A historical proposition close to " dystheism " is the deus deceptor () of Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy, which has been interpreted by Protestant critics as the blasphemous proposition that God exhibits malevolent intent.

Despite that Descartes is usually credited with the invention of the non-Platonic use of the term, he at first followed this vernacular use .< sup > b </ sup > In his Meditations on First Philosophy he says, " Some of my thoughts are like images of things, and it is to these alone that the name ' idea ' properly belongs.

René Descartes, a French philosopher and the author of Meditations on First Philosophy, lived in the village from 1643 to 1649 before leaving Holland for Sweden.

In his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes embarked upon a quest in which he called all his previous beliefs into doubt, in order to find out of what he could be certain.

Together with Meditations on First Philosophy ( Meditationes de Prima Philosophia ), Principles of Philosophy ( Principia philosophiae ) and Rules for the Direction of the Mind ( Regulae ad directionem ingenii ), it forms the base of the Epistemology known as Cartesianism.

# René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind ; Discourse on the Method ; Geometry ; Meditations on First Philosophy

As it was written in the vernacular, it became quite popular and was in use, as a paradigm of traditional term logic, into the twentieth century, introducing the reader to logic, and exhibiting strong Cartesian elements in its metaphysics and epistemology ( Arnauld having been one of the main philosophers whose objections were published, with replies, in Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy.

* Meditations on First Philosophy-René Descartes

* G. Hatfield, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Descartes and the Meditations ( Routledge, 2003 ) ISBN 0-415-11192-7

It was followed, in 1644, by Principia Philosophiæ ( Principles of Philosophy ), a kind of synthesis of the Meditations and the Discourse.

In Untimely Meditations, Nietzsche writes that: "... the goal of humanity lies in its highest specimens ".

Marcus Aurelius resided there for three years ( 172-175 ) during the war against the Marcomanni, and wrote part of his Meditations.

The conclusions of the previous Meditations that " I " and " God " both exist lead to another problem: If God is perfectly good and the source of all that is, how is there room for error or falsehood?

The far greater part of his works relate to matters connected with his profession, but they also contain an elaborate treatise on money ; several theological essays ; a life of his father, which is interesting from the account which it gives of his own early education ; and Metaphysical Meditations, written to prove that, independently of all revelation and all positive law, there is that in the constitution of the human mind which renders man a law to himself.

His first book was editing and translating into English the work of René Descartes which was published in London, 1680 as Six Metaphysical Meditations, Wherein it is Proved that there is a God ....

On the other hand, it can be argued that Austrian soil hosted one of the great works of Roman literature ; the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius lived several years in Carnuntum and Vienna and wrote most of his Meditations there ; nevertheless, it is a work generally classified within the Greek canon.