Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence write by René Descartes. This book was released on 2000-03-15. Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence write by René Descartes. This book was released on 1984. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volumes I and II provide a completely new translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. Volume III contains 207 of Descartes' letters, over half of which have not been translated into English before. It incorporates, in its entirety, Anthony Kenny's celebrated translation of selected philosophical letters, first published in 1970. In conjunction with Volumes I and II it is designed to meet the widespread demand for a comprehensive, accurate and authoritative edition of Descartes' philosophical writings in clear and readable modern English.
Descartes and the First Cartesians
Descartes and the First Cartesians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Descartes and the First Cartesians write by Roger Ariew. This book was released on 2014-11-06. Descartes and the First Cartesians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Descartes and the First Cartesians adopts the perspective that we should not approach René Descartes as a solitary thinker, but as a philosopher who constructs a dialogue with his contemporaries, so as to engage them and elements of his society into his philosophical enterprise. Roger Ariew argues that an important aspect of this engagement concerns the endeavor to establish Cartesian philosophy in the Schools, that is, to replace Aristotle as the authority there. Descartes wrote the Principles of Philosophy as something of a rival to Scholastic textbooks, initially conceiving the project as a comparison of his philosophy and that of the Scholastics. Still, what Descartes produced was inadequate for the task. The topics of Scholastic textbooks ranged more broadly than those of Descartes; they usually had quadripartite arrangements mirroring the structure of the collegiate curriculum, divided as they typically were into logic, ethics, physics, and metaphysics. But Descartes produced at best only what could be called a general metaphysics and a partial physics. These deficiencies in the Cartesian program and in its aspiration to replace Scholastic philosophy in the schools caused the Cartesians to rush in to fill the voids. The attempt to publish a Cartesian textbook that would mirror what was taught in the schools began in the 1650s with Jacques Du Roure and culminated in the 1690s with Pierre-Sylvain Régis and Antoine Le Grand. Ariew's original account thus considers the reception of Descartes' work, and establishes the significance of his philosophical enterprise in relation to the textbooks of the first Cartesians and in contrast with late Scholastic textbooks.
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence write by René Descartes. This book was released on 1991-08-30. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volumes I and II provide a completely new translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. Volume III contains 207 of Descartes' letters, over half of which have not been translated into English before. It incorporates, in its entirety, Anthony Kenny's celebrated translation of selected philosophical letters, first published in 1970. In conjunction with Volumes I and II it is designed to meet the widespread demand for a comprehensive, accurate and authoritative edition of Descartes' philosophical writings in clear and readable modern English.
Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings
Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings write by René Descartes. This book was released on 1988-02-26. Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, Objectives and Replies, Comments on a Broadsheet, and Passions of the Soul. In clear, readable, modern English, with a full text and running references to the standard Franco-Latin edition of Descartes, this book is planned as the definitive one-volume reader for all English-speaking students of Descartes.
