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Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies by Rene Descartes
15.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | 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 the Meditations by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
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 on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
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Category: Philosophy | 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
Treatise of Man by Rene Descartes
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Category: Philosophy
Besides his more famous works of philosophy - "Discourse on Method", "Meditations on First Philosophy", and "Principles of Philosophy" - Descartes devoted a great deal of time and thought to the study of physiology and anatomy. An account of his activities in 1629 reports that he visited butcher shops o ...Show more
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