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Discourse on Method and the Meditations by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
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 a ...Show more
Meditations by Rene Descartes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some boo ...Show more
Rene Descartes - Meditations and Other Writings by Rene Descartes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' "Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings" is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Desmond M. Clarke in "Penguin Classics". Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those thin ...Show more
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