Descartes's Comedy

Philosophy and Literature 8 (2):151-166 (1984)
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This essay examines the development of descartes' literary aspirations, and the temporal and ironic structures of the "discourse" and "meditations". descartes emerges as an ingenious philosophical stylist, with complicated debts to montaigne. his texts are shown to employ a 'rhetoric of edification', embodying the view that metaphysical wisdom can be achieved only through a lengthy apprenticeship to error

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10.1353/phl.1984.0016

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Descartes's Meditations as Cognitive Exercises.Gary Hatfield - 1985 - Philosophy and Literature 9 (1):41-58.

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