3 Books (Penguin Classics Edition) by René Descartes
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Overview: Rene Descartes (1596–1650), the French philosopher and mathematician, is regarded as the founder of modern philosophy.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
"Discourse on Method and Related Writings" (Penguin Classics Edition)
by René Descartes, Desmond M. Clarke (Translation, Introduction)
René 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 and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, and this soon came to replace the traditional techniques derived from Aristotle. Many of Descartes’ most radical ideas—such as the disparity between our perceptions and the realities that cause them—have been highly influential in the development of modern philosophy.This edition sets the Discourse on Method in the wider context of Descartes’ work, with the Rules for Guiding One’s Intelligence in Searching for the Truth (1628), extracts from The World (1633) and selected letters from 1636-9. A companion volume, Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings, is also published in Penguin Classics.
"Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings" (Penguin Classics Edition)
by René Descartes, Desmond M. Clarke (Translation, Introduction)
Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty—even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In his Meditations of 1641, and in the Objections and Replies that were included with the original publication, he set out to dismantle and then reconstruct the idea of the individual self and its existence. In doing so, Descartes developed a language of subjectivity that has lasted to this day, and he also took his first steps towards the view that would eventually be expressed in the epigram Cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am"), one of modern philosophy’s most famous—and most fiercely contested—claims. The first part of a two-volume edition of Descartes’ works in Penguin Classics, the second of which is Discourse on Method & Related Writings.
"Discourse on Method and the Meditations" (Penguin Classics Edition)
by René Descartes, F. E. Sutcliffe (Translation, Introduction)
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 and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, and this soon came to replace the traditional techniques derived from Aristotle. Many of Descartes’ most radical ideas such as the disparity between our perceptions and the realities that cause them have been highly influential in the development of modern philosophy.
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