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A discourse on the method of correctly conducting one's reason and seeking truth in the sciences / René Descartes ; translated with an introduction and notes by Ian Maclean.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [(c)2006.]Description: 1 online resource (lxxv, 84 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191517723
  • 0191517720
Uniform titles:
  • Discours de la méthode. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • B1848.5
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Contents:
The presentation of the project -- Intellectual autobiography -- Precepts in philosophy and ethics -- Metaphysics and epistemology -- Physics and physiology.
Review: "Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought. In it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography in the vernacular for a non-specialist readership, sweeps away all previous philosophical traditions, and sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous 'cogito ergo sum'), next deduces from it the existence and nature of God, and ends by offering a radical new account of the physical world and of human and animal nature."Summary: "This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introductory essay which draws on Descartes's correspondence to examine his motivation and the impact of his great work on his contemporaries. Detailed notes explain his philosophical terminology and ideas."--Jacket.
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The presentation of the project -- Intellectual autobiography -- Precepts in philosophy and ethics -- Metaphysics and epistemology -- Physics and physiology.

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Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought. In it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography in the vernacular for a non-specialist readership, sweeps away all previous philosophical traditions, and sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous 'cogito ergo sum'), next deduces from it the existence and nature of God, and ends by offering a radical new account of the physical world and of human and animal nature."

"This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introductory essay which draws on Descartes's correspondence to examine his motivation and the impact of his great work on his contemporaries. Detailed notes explain his philosophical terminology and ideas."--Jacket.

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