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Routledge Revivals Leonardo, Descartes, Max Weber First published in 1965, this collection ofthree essays by influential German philosopher KarlJaspers deals with the response ofthe philo sophical mind to the world ofreality, with the search for truth. In Leonardo, this search is shown in the thinking and the works ofa supreme artist whose means ofapperception are the senses. The essay on Max Weber commemorates a man Jaspers knew personally and ardently admired. The main essay in the collection is an exhaustive, three part study of Descartes: analysing Descartes' new philosophical operation, Descartes' Method, and the position of his philosophy within the wider historical context ofphilosophical thought. This page intentionally left blank Leonardo, Descartes, Max Weber Three Essays Karl Jaspers Translated by Ralph Mannheim R Routledqe Taylor & Francis Group f^v FirstpublishedinEnglandin1965 byRoutledge&KeganPaulLtd Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2009byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 270MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor& FrancisGroup, aninformabusiness © 1953byA.FranckeAG.Verlag,Bern © 1937byWalterdeGruyter& Co.,Berlin © 1958byR. Piper& Co.Verlag,Mlinchen Englishtranslation © 1964byHarcourt,BraceandWorld,Inc Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic, mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Publisher'sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwelcomes correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletocontact. ISBN13:978-0-415-55735-1(hbk) ISBN13:978-0-415-55789-4(pbk) ISBN10:0-415-55735-6(hbk) ISBN10:0-415-55789-5(pbk) LEONARDO, DESCARTES, MAX WEBER THREE ESSAYS Other works available in English translation THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS GENERAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY PHILOSOPHY AND THE WORLD NIETZSCHE AND CHRISTIANITY THE FUTURE uF MANKIND TRUTH AND SYMBOL MAN IN THE MODERN AGE REASON AND EXISTENZ THE ORIGIN AND GOAL OF HISTORY THE WAY TO WISDOM THE QUESTION OF GERMAN GUILT LEONARDO, DESCARTES, MAX WEBER Three Essays by Karl Jaspers TRANSLATED BY RALPH MANHEIM ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LONDON First published in England 1965byRoutledge &Kegan Paul Ltd Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane, London, E.C.4 Printed in Great Britain by The Compton Printing Works Ltd London, N.I Copyright 1953 by A. Francke AG. Verlag, Bern Copyright 1937 by Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin Copyright 1958 by R. Piper & Co. Verlag, Munchen English translation © 1964 by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc No part ofthis book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation ofbriefpassages in criticism Acknowledgement is made for permission to use the quotations from The Philosophical Works of Descartes, translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. Contents Leonardo as Philosopher 1 INTRODUCTION, 3 I. THE CHARACTER. OF HIS TIlINltING, 5 II. THE CONTENT OF HIS THINKING (METAPHYSICS), 22 III. THE LIFE OF THE PAINTER AS A COGNmVE FORM OF BEING, 36 IV. CHARACTERIZATION OF LEONARDO, 44 Descartes and Philosophy 59 INTRODUcnON,61 I. THE FUNDAMENTAL OPERATION, 64 1. How It Was Effected, 64 2. Critique of This Certainty, 67 3· The Encompassing, 79 II. TIlE METHOD, 93 1. Method as a Theme, 94 2. The Application of the Method, 115 v
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