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In the first of his Rules for the Direction of Mind, Descartes claims that the sciences, considered as a whole, are “nothing other than human wisdom, which always remains one and the same, however different the subjects to which it is applied, it being no more altered by them than sunlight is by the variety of things it shines on.”1
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Descartes, “Rules for the Direction of the Mind,” tr. Dugald Murdoch, in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) 9–78
On this see Jean-Luc Marion, Descartes’ Grey Ontology, tr. Sarah E. Donahue (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2004)
Walter Friedrich Otto, Die Manen, oder von den Urformen des Totenglaubens (Berlin: Springer, 1923) 1–44.
Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (New York: Hutchinson’s University Library, 1949) 16ff
Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations, tr. J. N. Findlay (London: Routledge, 1970) 1
Yves-Charles Zarka, L’autre voie de la subjectivité (Paris: Beauchesne Éditeur, 2000) 30.
Karl Heinz Haag, Der Fortschritt in der Philosophie (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1983) 124.
Cf. Alexandre Koyré, Entretiens sur Descartes (New York: Brentano’s, 1944) 201.
Augustine, Of True Religion, tr. John S. Burleigh (Lanham, MD: Regnery Gateway, 1959) 69
Jean-François Mattéi, La barbarie interieure (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1999) 110.
P. Natorp, Einleitung in die Psychologie nach kritischer Methode (Freiburg: Mohr, 1888).
Compare the nearly literal repetition of Descartes and Kant in Ideas II, Part Two, Chapter I, “The Pure I.” On the editorial work on Ideas II and III, see Hans Wagner, “Kritische Betrachtungen zu Husserls Nachlaß,” in Philosophische Rundschau 1 (1953): 1–22.
Paul Natorp, Allgemeine Psychologie nach kritischer Methode (Tübingen: Mohr, 1912).
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Olesen, S.G. (2013). The Call of the Subject. In: Transcendental History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137277787_4
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