Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings - Softcover

René Descartes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521358124 ISBN 13: 9780521358125

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Based on the new and much acclaimed two volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of those writings, including the Discourse and Meditations and substantial extracts from the Regulae, Optics, Principles, Objections and Replies, Comments on a Broadsheet, and Passions of the Soul.

About this title

Book Description:

Based on the new two volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of the writings.

From the Back Cover:

'This new translation is designed as a replacement for the old but still widely used translation by Elizabeth Haldane and G.R.T. Ross...Unlike the Haldane and Ross edition which was translated from a composite text based on both the French and Latin editions, the present translation is made from the Latin text alone, with significant changes in the French edition indicated in the footnotes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0521358124
• ISBN 13: 9780521358125
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249