Philosophical Essays Discourse On Method Meditations Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Essays: Discourse on Method; Meditations; Rules for the Direction of the Mind written by René Descartes and published by Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill. This book was released on 1964 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurence J. LaFleur
Publisher : Pearson College Division
ISBN 13 : 9780023672408
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical essays written by Laurence J. LaFleur and published by Pearson College Division. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rene Descartes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101160500
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse on Method and Related Writings written by Rene Descartes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is not enough to have a good mind; it is more important to use it well" 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.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486115445
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse on Method and Meditations written by René Descartes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to be certain of anything? If so, how? The father of modern philosophy and the founder of rational method in philosophical thought, René Descartes (1596–1650) sought the answers to these questions and in doing so, addressed the most important of methods of thinking and understanding truth. In Discourse on Method, he applies a scientific approach to philosophy that comprises four principles: to accept only what reason recognizes as "clear and distinct"; to analyze complex ideas by dividing them into smaller elements; to reconstruct the ideas; and to make accurate and complete enumerations of the data. His Meditations proceed according to this method, exploring the mind/body distinction, the nature of truth and error, the existence of God, and the essence of material things.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042001381
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulae Ad Directionem Ingenii written by René Descartes and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exactly four hundred years after the birth of René Descartes (1596-1650), the present volume now makes available, for the first time in a bilingual, philosophical edition prepared especially for English-speaking readers, his Regulae ad directionem ingenii / Rules for the Direction of the Natural Intelligence (1619-1628), the Cartesian treatise on method. This unique edition contains an improved version of the original Latin text, a new English translation intended to be as literal as possible and as liberal as necessary, an interpretive essay contextualizing the text historically, philologically, and philosophically, a com-prehensive index of Latin terms, a key glossary of English equivalents, and an extensive bibliography covering all aspects of Descartes' methodology. Stephen Gaukroger has shown, in his authoritative Descartes: An Intellectual Biography (1995), that one cannot understand Descartes without understanding the early Descartes. But one also cannot understand the early Descartes without understanding the Regulae / Rules. Nor can one understand the Regulae / Rules without understanding a philosophical edition thereof. Therein lies the justification for this project. The edition is intended, not only for students and teachers of philosophy as well as of related disciplines such as literary and cultural criticism, but also for anyone interested in seriously reflecting on the nature, expression, and exercise of human intelligence: What is it? How does it manifest itself? How does it function? How can one make the most of what one has of it? Is it equally distributed in all human beings? What is natural about it, and what, not? In the Regulae / Rules Descartes tries to provide, from a distinctively early modern perspective, answers both to these and to many other questions about what he refers to as ingenium.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603840176
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence written by René Descartes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300067736
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse on the Method written by René Descartes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780941736121
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meditations on First Philosophy written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rene Descartes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486432526
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse on Method and Meditations written by Rene Descartes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two works from the father of modern philosophy. In Discourse on Method, he formulated a scientific approach comprising four principles, including to accept only what reason recognizes as "clear and distinct." In Meditations, he explores the mind/body distinction, the nature of truth and error, the existence of God, and the essence of material things.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: