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Author Matthews, Gareth B., 1929-2011

Title Thought's ego in Augustine and Descartes / Gareth B. Matthews.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1992.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  189.2 M439T    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 217 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-209) and indexes.
Contents 'I*' questions -- The Cartesian cognito -- The Augustinian cognito -- My mind and I -- The epistemological dream problem -- The metaphysical dream problem -- Present-moment dream skepticism -- The moral dream problem -- The problem of other minds -- Descartes's internalism -- Augustine on outside authority -- Augustine on the teacher within -- God as guarantor -- Thought's ego -- Appendix : The rational reconstruction of knowledge.
Subject Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
ISBN 0801427754 alkaline paper
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