Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings
Selected Philosophical Writings
$111.04
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
26 February 1988
Summary
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 referen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521358125 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0521358124 |
| Author: | René Descartes, John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch, Anthony Kenny |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 1988 |
| Weight: | 395g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
‘This new translation is designed as a replacement for the old but still widely used translation by Elizabeth Haldane and G. R. T. Ross … Unlike the Haldane and Ross edition which was translated from a composite text based on both the French and Latin editions, the present translation is made from the Latin text alone, with significant changes in the French edition indicated in the footnotes. This is clearly much more satisfactory. The translation is generally accurate, and is neither excessively free nor excessively literal … There is little doubt that this will become the standard translation of Descartes’ philosophical writings, and it deserves a warm welcome.’ French Studies
About The Author
René Descartes
TOC: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences; Meditations on the First Philosphy; The Principles of Philosophy; Demonstrations of the Existence of Deity; Notes by the Translator: Perception, Idea, Objective Reality, From or Through the Senses, Thought, Innate Ideas, Formally and Eminently, Pure Intellection, Motion, Second Element.
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