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1 online resource (lxxv, 84 pages) |
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Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
The presentation of the project -- Intellectual autobiography -- Precepts in philosophy and ethics -- Metaphysics and epistemology -- Physics and physiology |
| Summary |
"Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought. In it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography in the vernacular for a non-specialist readership, sweeps away all previous philosophical traditions, and sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous 'cogito ergo sum'), next deduces from it the existence and nature of God, and ends by offering a radical new account of the physical world and of human and animal nature." |
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"This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introductory essay which draws on Descartes's correspondence to examine his motivation and the impact of his great work on his contemporaries. Detailed notes explain his philosophical terminology and ideas."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
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Methodology.
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Science -- Methodology.
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Philosophy.
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Science -- methods
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Philosophy
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Metaphysics
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Methods
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methodology.
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philosophy.
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metaphysics.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Philosophy
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Methodology
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Science -- Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maclean, Ian, 1945-
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| ISBN |
9780191517723 |
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0191517720 |
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