Descartes : selected philosophical writings

Author(s)

• Descartes, René

Bibliographic Information

Descartes : selected philosophical writings

translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch

Cambridge University Press, 1988

• pbk.

Other Title

Selections

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

• 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
• Passions of the soul

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 1. General introduction
• 2. Chronological table of Descartes' life and works
• 3. Rules for the direction of our native intelligence
• 4. Discourse on the method
• 5. Optics
• 6. Meditations on first philosophy
• 7. Objections and replies
• 8. Principles of philosophy
• 9. Comments on a certain broadsheet
• 10. The passions of the soul
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA04371223
• ISBN:
  • 0521352649
  • 0521358124
• LCCN: 87026799
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Cambridge ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 249 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B1837
  • DC19 : 194
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philosophy