Rene Descartes

Descartes: The World and Other Writings (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. Above all, it provides an insight into how Descartes conceived of natural philosophy before he started to reformulate his doctrines in terms of a sceptically driven epistemology. Of its two parts, the Treatise on Light introduced the first comprehensive, quantitative version of a mechanistic natural philosophy, supplying a theory of matter, a physical optics, and a cosmology. The Treatise on Man provided the first comprehensive mechanist physiology. This volume also includes translations of material important for an understanding of the work: related sections from the Dioptrics and the Meteors, and an English translation of the complete text of The Description of the Human Body.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511035791
• Artikelnr.: 38184516

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.