Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes

by Gareth B. Matthews

In his concise and ambitious book, Gareth B. Matthews explores the implications of doing philosophy in the first person. He focuses on the most notable attempts in the history of philosophy to take this perspective: Augustine's Confessions, perhaps the first significant autobiography in Western culture, and Soliloquies, a dialogue between himself and reason; and Descartes's Meditations and Discourse on Method. "By examining the first-personalization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801427754
• ISBN13: 9780801427756
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 217 Pages