Meditations and other metaphysical writings

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René Descartes: Meditations and other metaphysical writings (1998, Penguin)

212 pages

English language

Published Aug. 26, 1998 by Penguin.

ISBN:
978-0-14-044701-9
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OCLC Number:
40461397

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It feels quite inappropriate to provide a 'rating' to a collection of philosophical works which so entirely changed the direction and character of western philosophy. Descartes' methods were revolutionary and, in the form of the Principles of First Philosophy, perhaps their most developed methodological elaboration since the Greeks. Descartes wrote with a clarity and humility which is rare to find in philosophers, particularly those who so radically questioned not just the truth of doxa but its very conceptual foundations. Any rating lower than five stars does not do justice to how important this work is.

It is impossible to understand the last 370 years of western philosophy without understanding that is rooted in Plato and then routed through Descartes. An understanding cannot proceed without a familiarity with Descartes. The great philosophers and thinkers of the last few centuries - Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, and many others - …

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  • First philosophy.
  • Metaphysics.

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