第一哲学沉思录(英文版)

MEDITATIONS First Philosophy is made up of six meditations，in which Descartes First discards all belief in things which are not absolutely certain， and then tries to establish what can be known for sure. The meditations were written as if he were mcditating for 6 days： each meditation refers to the last one as "yesterday". In Ethics， Spinoza attempts to demonstrate a "fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethicallife." Although it was published posthumously in 1677， it is his most famous work， and is considered his magnum opus.
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“我思，故我在。”西方近代哲学之父笛卡尔以这一经典命题表明了与前此的传统哲学决裂，阐扬天赋观念论和理性至上论。笛卡尔的“我思”具有鲜明的怀疑、否定、判断的内容，尤其强调以怀疑、否定的精神将“历来信以为真的一切见解统统清除出去，再从根本上重新始”。这就撼动了自中世纪以来经院哲学神圣不可侵犯的地位，从而在欧陆引发一场理性主义思潮，宣告r启蒙时代的到来。 大陆理性主义的另一位代表人物斯宾诺莎确信哲学也可以像几何推理一般以简洁、明晰的语言来表述；他认为哲学的目的和终结即是伦理学，亦即求得人类**的善和**的福祉，因而，他把这部贡献了一生精力的著作命名为《伦理学》。
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RENE DESCARTES （1596-1650）， a French philosopher and writer who has been called the "Father of Modern Philosophy，" and in particular， his Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement "Cogito ergo sum" （I think， therefore I am; or I do think， therefore I do exist）. BARUCH DE SPINOZA （1632，-1677） was a Dutch philosopher. By laying the groundwork for the i8th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism， he came to be considered one of the great rationalist's of the 17th-century philosophy Gilles Delouse names him "the prince of philosophers."