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Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies by Rene Descartes
Category: Culture | Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
The Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, is the most widely studied of all Descartes' writings. This authoritative translation by John Cottingham, taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes, is based upon the best available ...Show more
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching e ...Show more
Discourse on Method and Related Writings by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. It includes "Discourse on Method", the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scien ...Show more
Discourse on Method and the Meditations by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
Category: Education | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy a ...Show more
Meditations by Rene Descartes
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some boo ...Show more
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished' In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, the thinker rejects all his ...Show more
Rene Descartes - Meditations and Other Writings by Rene Descartes
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Classics
One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' "Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings" is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Desmond M. Clarke in "Penguin Classics". Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those thin ...Show more
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