1834 Antique French Book

1834 RARE Philosophy Descartes Objections to the Meditations and Descartes's Replies Hobbes Gassendi Metaphysics Leather Binding 1800s

Rare French antique book from 1834. "Oeuvres Philosophiques de Descartes... Tome II”. This volume contains the Objections to the Meditations and Descartes's Replies. Paris, 1834. 21 x 13 cm., XL + 560 pages.  Text in French.  Bound in period full leather, gilt to spine, embossed covers, marbled endpapers, marbled edges.  Very Good Condition. Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated (Latin: Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur) is a philosophical treatise by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The French translation (by the Duke of Luynes with Descartes' supervision) was published in 1647 as Méditations Métaphysiques. The title may contain a misreading by the printer, mistaking animae immortalitas for animae immaterialitas, as suspected by A. Baillet.  The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief in things that are not absolutely certain, and then tries to establish what can be known for sure. He wrote the meditations as if he had meditated for six days: each meditation refers to the last one as "yesterday". (In fact, Descartes began work on the Meditations in 1639.) One of the most influential philosophical texts ever written, it is widely read to this day.