Selections From The Principles Of Philosophy Of Rene Descartes

Author : Reuven Agushevits
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781602800243
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Principles of Philosophy written by Reuven Agushevits and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Principles of Philosophy is an attempt, by a self-taught genius, to persuade the Yiddish speaking public that philosophy has not lost its central importance vis a vis both religion and science. He does this, first, by identifying religion with philosophy - and he is the first Orthodox rabbi since Maimonides to do so. Next, he argues that philosophical principles, which are broader than those of science, are at the basis of all existence, and that the same principles that account for the organization of matter can account for the varieties of human organization (and disorganization). He argues, finally, that the study of philosophy itself can lead to the weakening of egotism and the strengthening of altruism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Ezreads Publications, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Selections from the Principles of Philosophy written by René Descartes and published by Ezreads Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selections from the Principles of Philosophy of Rene Descartes. This volume was translated by John Veitch, LL.D., late Professor of Logic and Rhetoric in the University of Glasgow. This volume contains a letter of the author to the French translator of the Principles of Philosophy serving for a Preface and a letter to the most serene princess, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Frederick, King of Bohemia, Count Palatine, and Elector of the Sacred Roman Empire."

Author : René Descartes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Selections from the Principles of Philosophy of René Descartes written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781545247921
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Selections from the Principles of Philosophy written by René Descartes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from the Principles of Philosophy - Rene Descartes - Translated by John Veitch - Principles of Philosophy is a book by Ren� Descartes. In essence it is a synthesis of the Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy It was written in Latin, published in 1644 and dedicated to Elisabeth of Bohemia, with whom Descartes had a long-standing friendship. A French version (Les Principes de la Philosophie) followed in 1647. It set forth the principles of nature-the Laws of Physics-as Descartes viewed them. Most notably, it set forth the principle that in the absence of external forces, an object's motion will be uniform and in a straight line. Newton borrowed this principle from Descartes and included it in his own Principia; to this day, it is still generally referred to as Newton's First Law of Motion. The book was primarily intended to replace the Aristotelian curriculum then used in French and British Universities. The work provides a systematic statement of his metaphysics and natural philosophy, and represents the first truly comprehensive, mechanistic account of the universe.

Author : Rene Descartes
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3736807597
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Principles of Philosophy written by Rene Descartes and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Philosophy is a book by Rene Descartes. It is basically a synthesis of the Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. It set forth the principles of nature—the Laws of Physics--as Descartes viewed them. Most notably, it set forth the principle that in the absence of external forces, an object's motion will be uniform and in a straight line. Newton borrowed this principle from Descartes and included it in his own Principia; to this day, it is still generally referred to as Newton's First Law of Motion. The book was primarily intended to replace the Aristotelian curriculum then used in French and British Universities. Descartes's use of the word "philosophy" in the title refers to "natural philosophy", which is what science was called at that time.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Meditations, and Selections from the Principles of René Descartes (1596-1650) written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940097888X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book René Descartes: Principles of Philosophy written by and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descartes's Principles 0. / Philosophy is his longest and most ambitious work; it is the only work in which he attempted to actually deduce scientific knowledge from Cartesian metaphysics, as he repeatedly claimed was possible. Whatever the success of this attempt, there can be no doubt that it was enormously influential. Cartesian celestial mechanics held sway for well over a century, and some of the best minds of that period, including Leibniz, Malebranche, Euler, and the Bernoullis, attempted to modify and quantify the Cartesian theory of vortices into an acceptable alternative to Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Thus, the Principles is not only of inherent and historical interest philosophically but is also a seminal document in the history of science and of 17th Century thought. Principles of Philosophy was first published in Latin, in 1644. In 1647, a French translation, done by the Abbe Claude Picot and containing a great deal of additional material and a number of alterations in the original text, was published with Descartes's enthusiastic approval. Unlike some English translations of portions of the Principles, this translation uses the Latin text as its primary source; however, a good deal of additional material from Picot's translation has been included. There are several reasons for this. First, there is good evidence that Descartes himself was responsible for some of the additional material, including, of course, the Preface to the French translation.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533252791
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Selections from the Principles of Philosophy of Rene Descartes written by René Descartes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530541751
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Selections from the Principles of Philosophy written by René Descartes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...] SELECTIONS FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY OF DESCARTES TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN AND COLLATED WITH THE FRENCH LETTER OF THE AUTHOR TO THE FRENCH TRANSLATOR OF THE PRINCIPLES OF [...]".

Author : Rene Descartes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781989708125
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Selections from the Principles of Philosophy written by Rene Descartes and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: René Descartes (31 March 1596 - 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of the Kingdom of France, he spent about 20 years (1629-1649) of his life in the Dutch Republic after serving for a while in the Dutch States Army of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces. One of the most notable intellectual figures of the Dutch Golden Age, [19] Descartes is also widely regarded as one of the founders of modern philosophy. Many elements of Descartes' philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like Augustine. In his natural philosophy, he differed from the schools on two major points: first, he rejected the splitting of corporeal substance into matter and form; second, he rejected any appeal to final ends, divine or natural, in explaining natural phenomena.[20] In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God's act of creation. Refusing to accept the authority of previous philosophers, Descartes frequently set his views apart from the philosophers who preceded him. In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, an early modern treatise on emotions, Descartes goes so far as to assert that he will write on this topic "as if no one had written on these matters before". His best known philosophical statement is "I think, therefore I am" (French: Je pense, donc je suis; Latin: cogito, ergo sum), found in Discourse on the Method (1637; written in French and Latin) and Principles of Philosophy (1644; written in Latin) Descartes laid the foundation for 17th-century continental rationalism, later advocated by Spinoza and Leibniz, and was later opposed by the empiricist school of thought consisting of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Leibniz, Spinoza, and Descartes were all well-versed in mathematics as well as philosophy, and Descartes and Leibniz contributed greatly to science as well. Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes' influence in mathematics is equally apparent; the Cartesian coordinate system was named after him. He is credited as the father of analytical geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry--used in the discovery of infinitesimal calculus and analysis. Descartes was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution.