Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings (Penguin Classics) Trade paperback - 1999
by Rene Descartes
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- Title Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings (Penguin Classics)
- Author Rene Descartes
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition International Ed
- Condition Used Good
- Pages 256
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Classics, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date September 1999
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 230395
- ISBN 9780140447019
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Modern
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Summary
From the rear cover
Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the Meditations (1641), must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece.
The six Meditations and accompanying selections from the Objections and Replies provide a definitive statement of what Descartes intended as the foundations of his whole philosophy. His project was to resolve the epistemological questions brought about by the prevailing scepticism of his age; to build, from the basis of self-awareness (Cogito, ergo sum), through the notion of a benevolent God, to a systematic and novel approach to metaphysics, and to construct a secure starting-point for science.
The first part of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics, this volume consists not only of a new translation of the original Latin text and extensive selections from the Objections and Replies, but also includes relevant correspondence from the period 1643-49, Part One of The Principles of Philosophy and Comments On a Certain Manifesto, as examples of Descartes' other metaphysical writings from the period 1641-49.
