Table of Contents for Descartes’ Meditative Turn

Descartes’ Meditative Turn
Cartesian Thought as Spiritual Practice
Christopher J. Wild

Introduction: Descartes' Meditative Turn and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises

1.Founding First Philosophies: Descartes' Conversion

2.Method and Meditation: The Cartesian Art of Turning

3.The Discernment of Ideas and the Evidence of the Cogito

4.Cartesian Ceroplastics: Meditating the Mediality of the Mind

5.Adversio, Animadversio, and Attentio: Turning toward God

6."To Gaze with Wonder and Adoration": Contemplatio Dei and Meditative Ascent

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back to Excerpts + more