Descartes
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
ISBN-10
0521636469
ISBN-13
9780521636469
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 26th, 1998
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
310 grams
Dimensions
18.50 x 22.80 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
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Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. This volume offers an alternative translation of the work, together with a historical introduction and notes on further reading.
Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. Above all, it provides an insight into how Descartes conceived of natural philosophy before he started to reformulate his doctrines in terms of a sceptically driven epistemology. Of its two parts, the Treatise on Light introduced the first comprehensive, quantitative version of a mechanistic natural philosophy, supplying a theory of matter, a physical optics, and a cosmology. The Treatise on Man provided the first comprehensive mechanist physiology. This volume also includes translations of material important for an understanding of the work: related sections from the Dioptrics and the Meteors, and an English translation of the complete text of The Description of the Human Body.
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