Descartes’s Treatise on Man

The Institute of Philosophy invites you to a seminar series on Descartes’s Treatise on Man.

As part of the preparation of a Slovenian translation of René Descartes’s Traité de l’homme (Treatise on Man), the Institute of Philosophy at ZRC SAZU is organizing a series of seminars devoted to individual chapters of Descartes’s text, which forms a continuation of his posthumously published Le Monde (The World).

The seminars will take place in the meeting room of the Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 3rd floor, beginning at 5:00 PM, according to the following schedule:

14 October
Brief introduction and Chapter 1: “On the machine of the Body”

28 October
Chapter 2: “How the machine of the body is moved”

18 November
Chapter 3, Part I (up to the discussion of vision): “On the External Senses of This Machine and How They Correspond to Ours”

2 December
Chapter 3, Part II: “The external senses of this machine and how they are related to ours”

16 December
Chapter 4: “On the internal senses which are to be found in this machine”

13 January
Chapter 5, Part I: “On the structure of the brain of this machine, and on how the spirits are distributed there so as to cause its movements and its sensations”

27 January
Chapter 5, Part II: “On the structure of the brain of this machine, and on how the spirits are distributed there so as to cause its movements and its sensations”

Those interested in attending the seminar should write to the following address to obtain access to working drafts of the chapters: matija.jan@zrc-sazu.si

All are welcome!