Metaphysical Disquisition
Disquisitio Metaphysica, seu Dubitationes et Instantiae adversus Renati Cartesii Metaphysicam
Latin
1644
349 pages
First Complete Translation
Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.
Extensive searches across multiple academic and library catalogs (including local catalogs, OpenAlex, and Internet Archive) have yielded no evidence of a complete English translation of Pierre Gassendi's 'Disquisitio Metaphysica'. While the work is frequently discussed in scholarly literature, no full translation exists. There are, however, likely partial translations or excerpts within scholarly articles and anthologies, though none were explicitly identified as complete editions in the search results.
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Pierre Gassendi confronts René Descartes in a head-on collision between cold empiricism and abstract rationalism. This text captures a high-stakes intellectual duel where the boundaries of the soul, the reliability of the senses, and the very nature of truth are put on trial.
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