[lit-ideas] Descartes' "Genium Malignum"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:02:54 EDT
I see the phase is 'genium malignum', (Med. I, 12)
Supponam igitur non optimum Deum, fontem veritatis, sed genium aliquem
malignum, eundemque summe potentem & callidum, omnem suam industriam in eo
posuisse, ut me falleret: putabo coelum, aërem, terram, colores, figuras,
sonos, cunctaque externa nihil aliud esse quàm ludificationes somniorum,
quibus
insidias credulitati meae tetendit: considerabo
and some references,
Gillespie, A. (2006). Descartes’ demon: A dialogical analysis of ‘
Meditations on First Philosophy.’[1] Theory & Psychology, 16, 761-781.
^ Richard M. Kennington (2004). "The Finitude of Descartes' Evil Genius".
On Modern Origins: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy. Lexington Books. pp.
146. ISBN 0739108158.
O. K. Bouwsma (1965). "Descartes' Evil Genius". Philosophical Essays.
University of Nebraska Press. pp. 85–98. ISBN 0803262256. — originally
published as:
O. K. Bouwsma (March 1949). "Descartes' Evil Genius". The Philosophical
Review 58 (2): 141–151. doi:10.2307/2181388.
David Frederick Haight and Marjorie A. Haight (2004). "Dialogue between
Descartes and the Evil Genius". Scandal of Reason: Or Shadow of God.
University Press of America. pp. 49–70. ISBN 0761827250.
Cheers,
JL
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