Discourse on Method and Related Writings

René Descartes

ISBN 10: 0140446990 / ISBN 13: 9780140446999

Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, GB, 1999

Beschreibung

This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier, unpublished work, THE WORLD; as well as a selection of Descartes' correspondence and his replies to his critics.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Discourse on Method and Related Writings
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, GB
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0140446990
• ISBN-13: 9780140446999
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

"It is not enough to have a good mind; it is more important to use it well"

René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, and this soon came to replace the traditional techniques derived from Aristotle. Many of Descartes’ most radical ideas—such as the disparity between our perceptions and the realities that cause them—have been highly influential in the development of modern philosophy.This edition sets the Discourse on Method in the wider context of Descartes’ work, with the Rules for Guiding One’s Intelligence in Searching for the Truth (1628), extracts from The World (1633) and selected letters from 1636-9. A companion volume, Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings, is also published in Penguin Classics.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Rene Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher and mathematician, is generally regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. 

Desmond Clarke is professor of philosophy at Unviersity College, Cork.