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Discourse on Method and the Meditations by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Rene 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 a ...Show more
Key Philosophical Writings by René Descartes
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Classics of World Literature
Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo. Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the core of our contemporary intellectual identity. Breaki ...Show more
The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton by Nicolaus Copernicus; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler; René Descartes; Isaac. Newton; Aviva Rothman (Editor, Translator)
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Category: Science
New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later ...Show more
The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings by René Descartes; Michael Moriarty (Translator)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.' Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But he also acknowledged the intimate union between them, and in his later writings he concentrated on under ...Show more
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