A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences (Oxford World's Classics)

Descartes, Rene

ISBN 10: 0199540071 / ISBN 13: 9780199540075

Editore: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

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Titolo: A Discourse on the Method of Correctly ...

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA

Data di pubblicazione: 2008

Legatura: Soft cover

Condizione: Very Good

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Riassunto:

'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.'

Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography in the vernacular for a non-specialist readership, sweeps away all previous philosophical traditions, and 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 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.

This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introductory essay which draws on Descartes's correspondence to examine his motivation and the impact of his great work on his contemporaries. Detailed notes explain his philosophical terminology and ideas.
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Informazioni sull?autore:

Ian Maclean, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Oxford.