Meditations on First Philosophy - Softcover

Descartes, Rene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1613821387 ISBN 13: 9781613821381

Verlag: Simon & Brown, 2011

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Many other matters respecting the attributes of God and my own nature or mind remain for consideration; but I shall possibly on another occasion resume the investigation of these. Now (after first noting what must be done or avoided, in order to arrive at a knowledge of the truth) my principal task is to endeavour to emerge from the state of doubt into which I have these last days fallen, and to see whether nothing certain can be known regarding material things.

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René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist whose work helped establish the foundations of modern Western philosophy. Often associated with rationalism, methodical doubt, and the search for certainty, Descartes transformed philosophical inquiry by insisting that knowledge must be tested through reason rather than accepted merely through tradition or sensory experience. His famous formulation "I think, therefore I am" became one of the central statements in the history of philosophy and remains a defining point of entry into questions of selfhood, consciousness, knowledge, and reality.Descartes' influence extends well beyond philosophy. His mathematical work contributed to analytic geometry, and his broader intellectual project helped shape early modern science, metaphysics, epistemology, and debates over mind and body. Alongside Meditations on First Philosophy and Principles of Philosophy, Discourse on the Method remains one of his most widely read works, valued by students, scholars, and general readers as a clear and powerful introduction to the rationalist tradition and the emergence of modern thought.

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• Verlag: Simon & Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1613821387
• ISBN 13: 9781613821381
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 86
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