Discourse on Method: WITH Meditations (Dover Philosophical Classics) - Softcover

Descartes, Rene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486432521 ISBN 13: 9780486432526

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2004

Synopsis

Two works from the father of modern philosophy. In Discourse on Method, he formulated a scientific approach comprising four principles, including to accept only what reason recognizes as "clear and distinct." In Meditations, he explores the mind/body distinction, the nature of truth and error, the existence of God, and the essence of material things.

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About the Author:

Ren? Descartes, known as the Father of Modern Philosophy and inventor of Cartesian coordinates, was a seventeenth century French philosopher, mathematician, and writer. Descartes made significant contributions to the fields of philosophy and mathematics, and was a proponent of rationalism, believing strongly in fact and deductive reasoning. Working in both French and Latin, he wrote many mathematical and philosophical works including The World, Discourse on a Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Passions of the Soul. He is perhaps best known for originating the statement I think, therefore I am.

Synopsis:

Reprints the sections "Discourse on the method of rightly conducting the reason" and "Meditations on first philosophy" from the 1955 Dover edition of The philosophical works of Descartes, vol. 1 , which was a corrected reprint of the Cambridge University Press edition published in 1911. In them, Descartes considers the nature of the human mind, sci

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0486432521
• ISBN 13: 9780486432526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128