A Discourse on the Method : of Correctly Conducting Ones Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Rene Descartes , Translated by Ian Maclean


Categories: Philosophy Western Philosophy: C 1600 To C 1900 Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -


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I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.

Descartess A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting Ones 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.

This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introductory essay which draws on Descartess correspondence to examine his motivation and the impact of his great work on his contemporaries. Detailed notes explain his philosophical terminology and ideas.
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Product details

Format Paperback | 160 pages
Dimensions 128 x 196 x 11mm | 123g
Publication date 15 Jun 2008
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN10 0199540071
ISBN13 9780199540075
Bestsellers rank 67,370