The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes

by John Veitch

Translated From The Original Texts With A New Introductory Essay, Historical And Critical.

371 pages, Hardcover

First published June 23, 2005

About the author

Professor John Veitch was a Scottish poet, philosopher, and historian. The son of a Peninsular War veteran, he was born at Peebles, and educated at the University of Edinburgh.

He was assistant lecturer successively to Sir William Hamilton and Alexander Campbell Fraser (1856–60). In 1860 he was appointed to the chair of logic, metaphysics and rhetoric at the University of St Andrews, and in 1864 to the corresponding chair at the University of Glasgow.

In philosophy an intuitionist, he dismissed the idealist arguments with some abruptness, and thereby lost much of the influence gained by the force of his personal character. He will be remembered chiefly for his work on Border literature and antiquities.

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[Babatunde Odutola · Rating 3 out of 5]

2. Of course, he didn’t prove the ‘existence’ of “God” or “Soul” or “Mind”. He only anthropomorphized his own “God”, the attributes of which were inconsistent with those of the “God” installed in him by the Jesuits.