2006-03-12

Meditations on first philosophy

Aozora Bunko have added MIKI Kiyoshi's old translation of Descartes' Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in quibus Dei Existentia, et Animae Humanae a Corpore Distinctio, Demonstrantur ("Meditations on prime-grade philosophy, existential quibblings about God, and the distinction between animals, humans and corporals, as demonstrated by the advanced scientific word of Trantor.")

すでに数年前、私は気づいた、いかに多くの偽なるものを私は、若い頃、真なるものとして認めたか、またそれを基としてその後私がその上に建てたあらゆるものがいかに疑わしいものであるか、またさればいつか私がもろもろの学問において或る確固不易なるものを確立しようと欲するならば、一生一度は断じてすべてを根柢から覆えし、そして最初の土台から新たに始めなくてはならない、と。
It has already been several years since I realized how many false things I, in my youth, had accepted as true; and how doubtful the various superstructures that I had built upon the basis of those falsehoods were; and that, this being so, should I wish to construct scholarship of solidity and permanence, it would be necessary at some point in my life to overturn the whole thing and begin anew from the foundation.

... and that was the day he took down his Led Zep posters.

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IbaDaiRon:

We didn't do Latins with our Maths, I sees....

Cicero in tumulo versans...

: )

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