Discourse on Method and Meditations (Philosophical Classics)
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,...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486432526 (0486432521)
ASIN: 486432521
Publish date: December 12th 2003
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Science,
Read For School,
Religion,
College,
France,
17th Century
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...
…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...
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...
Done done and done. I'll write some review-like thing soonish.
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