Discourse on the Method : Of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
ISBN: 9780199540075 | 0199540071
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/15/2008
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Descartes' Discourse marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous "cogito ergo sum"). Next he deduces from it the existence and nature of God, and ends by offering a radical new account of the physical world and of human and animal nature. Written in everyday language and meant to be read by common people of the day, it swept away all previous philosophical traditions. This new translation is an ideal introduction to Desc... MORE
| Introduction:A Philosopher's Life | |
| The Genesis of the Discourse and its Development | |
| Galileo, Mersenne, and the Church: Authority and Truth | |
| The Publication of the Discourse | |
| The Discourse | |
| the Presentation of the Discourse | |
| Intellectual Autobiography | |
| Precepts in Philosophy | |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology | |
| Phy... MORE | |
| The Essays published with the Discourse | |
| Descartes as a WriterEnvoi: the Cartesian Philosophical Edifice | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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