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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy - René Descartes
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
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This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic... show more
This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780872204201 (0872204200)
ASIN: 872204200
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Pages no: 120
Edition language: English
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Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
3.0 Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.
These are undeniably important works. The introduction calls Descartes the "originator of modern philosophy." This is also very lucidly written--I think the arguments are perfectly accessible to the layman, it's just I don't think much of them. The full title of the first treatise of only 54 pages i...
Reading Adler's List
Reading Adler's List rated it
4.0
…there is less perfection in works made of several pieces and in works made by the hands of several masters than in those works on which but one master has worked. Thus one sees that buildings undertaken and completed by a single architect are commonly more beautiful and better ordered than those t...
janeg
janeg rated it
Do I agree with everything said ? No. Are some ideas obsolete? Yes. Nonetheless it is a fascinating and illuminating experience to follow the thought process of this man. I can't ignore the possibility that I made myself appreciate it more given how tedious it was for me to go through this book, but...
Sparkles and Lightning
Sparkles and Lightning rated it
3.0
Done done and done. I'll write some review-like thing soonish.
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