Author : Richard A. Watson
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
It was Descartes (1596-1650), says Watson (philosophy, Washington U., St. Louis), who established (or perhaps discovered) the rules of Reason, the foundation on which science and philosophy have been constructed since his time. He explores the life of the mathematician and philosopher, for readers who have no background in either field, but would l
Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300067736
Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the arts. This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on Method and Meditations, and presents essays by leading scholars that explore his contributions in each of those fields and place his ideas in the context of his time and our own. There are chapters by David Weissman on metaphysics and psychoanalysis, John Post on epistemology, Lou Massa on physics and mathematics, William T. Bluhm on politics and ethics, and Thomas Pavel on literature and art. These essays are accompanied by others by David Weissman and by Stephen Toulmin that introduce the idea of intellectual lineages, discuss the period in which Descartes wrote, and reexamine the premises of his philosophy in light of contemporary philosophical, political, and social thinking.
Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0141936061
Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece. This volume consists of not only a new translation of the original Latin text and the expanded objections and replies, but also includes selected correspondence and other metaphysical writings from the period 1641-49.
Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 1989-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 162466198X
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum
Author : René Descartes
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : 9780941736121
Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2006-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416522638
Scientist, mathematician, traveller, soldier -- and spy -- René Descartes has been called the 'father of modern philosophy'. Born in 1596 into an era still dominated by the medieval mindset, he was one of the chief actors in the riveting drama that ushered in the modern world. His life coincided with an extraordinarily significant time in history -- the first half of the miraculous seventeenth century, replete with genius in the arts and sciences, and wracked by civil and international conflicts across Europe. Before his death in 1650 Descartes made immense contributions to an exceptionally wide range of fields and disciplines, and his assertion 'Cogito, ergo sum' ('I think, therefore I am') has become one of the most famous maxims in all philosophy. He was the very archetype of a 'Renaissance man', and yet surprisingly little is known about him. Drawing on new research and his own insights as one of our leading philosophers, A. C. Grayling presents a stunningly accessible and fascinating portrait of the man and the remarkable era in which he lived.
Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 1988-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110726832X
Based on the new and much acclaimed two-volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of those writings, including the Discourse and Meditations and substantial extracts from the Regulae, Optics, Principles, Objectives and Replies, Comments on a Broadsheet, and Passions of the Soul. In clear, readable, modern English, with a full text and running references to the standard Franco-Latin edition of Descartes, this book is planned as the definitive one-volume reader for all English-speaking students of Descartes.
Author : René Descartes
Publisher :
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Meteors
ISBN : 9780511642685
Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. This volume offers a new translation of the work, together with a historical introduction and notes on further reading.
Author : Steven M. Nadler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691157308
A unique combination of philosophy, biography, and art history. The philospher, the priest, and the painter investigates the remarkable individuals and the circumstances behind a small portrait.
Author : H. Ben-Yami
Publisher : Springer
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137512024
Ben-Yami shows how the technology of Descartes' time shapes his conception of life, soul and mind–body dualism; how Descartes' analytic geometry helps him develop his revolutionary conception of representation without resemblance; and how these ideas combine to shape his new and influential theory of perception.
