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Author Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Title Descartes : selected philosophical writings / translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch ; with an introduction by John Cottingham
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) : illustrations
Contents Rules for the direction of our native intelligence -- Discourse on the method -- Optics -- Meditations on First philosophy -- Objections and replies -- Principles of philosophy -- Comments on a certain broadsheet -- The passions of the soul
Summary 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
Analysis French philosophy
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Philosophy.
Philosophy
philosophy.
Philosophy.
Filosofie.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 87026799
ISBN 9780511805059
0511805055
1107263638
9781107263635
Other Titles Works. Selections. English. 1988