Discourse on Method (Everyman S) - Softcover

Descartes, Rene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 046087411X ISBN 13: 9780460874113

Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics, 1994

Synopsis

TOC: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences; Meditations on the First Philosphy; The Principles of Philosophy; Demonstrations of the Existence of Deity; Notes by the Translator: Perception, Idea, Objective Reality, From or Through the Senses, Thought, Innate Ideas, Formally and Eminently, Pure Intellection, Motion, Second Element.

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''His aim was certainty--the kind of certainty that did not rely upon unobserved entities for the explanation of natural events nor upon the authority of learned theologians but by submitting everything to reason, in short by extending the clearness and distinctness of mathematical ideas and proofs to all spheres of human knowledge and to knowledge itself.'' --Chambers Biographical Dictionary

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman Paperback Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 046087411X
• ISBN 13: 9780460874113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300