Rene Descartes

Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on the new and much acclaimed two-volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of those writings, including the Discourse and Meditations and substantial extracts from the Regulae, Optics, Principles, Objectives and Replies, Comments on a Broadsheet, and Passions of the Soul. In clear, readable, modern English, with a full text and running references to the standard Franco-Latin edition of Descartes, this book is planned as the definitive one-volume reader for all English-speaking students of Descartes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 1988
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107263635
• Artikelnr.: 39552263

Autorenporträt

René Descartes (Renatus Cartesius) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. His best known philosophical statement is ""cogito, ergo sum"" (""I think, therefore I am""; French: Je pense, donc je suis), found in Discourse on the Method (1637; in French and Latin) and Principles of Philosophy (1644, in Latin).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chronology
Further reading
Note on the texts
The World and other writings: 1. The Treatise on Light
2. Discourse 2 of the Dioptrics
3. Discourse 8 of the Meteors
4. The Treatise on Man
5. Description of the Human Body
Index.