Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics. This text presents Descartes' two major works.
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This review is from: Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Rethinking the Western Tradition) (Paperback)
Usually, philosophy books speak only to academic philosophers. This one shows Descartes' influence in a wide range of domains, including math and science, ethics and politics, psychology, and literature and the arts. The nine essays that complement Descartes' texts (the Discourse and Meditations) are accessible, but deeply informed. They have little or no competition. The translation is classic and clean, not fussy. This is not the last word on Descartes. Professorial competition guarantees many more. But this book is both scholarly and provocative.
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Poor translation,
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This review is from: Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Rethinking the Western Tradition) (Paperback)
The negative nature of this review reflects upon this particular translation of Descartes' seminal work, not upon the content of the work itself. The edition in question (ISBN: 0330067739), published by Yale University Press and edited by David Weissman, utilizes a translation rendered originally for Cambridge University Press in 1911. Unfortunately, this translation does much to obfuscate a work that should help enlighten. The saving grace of this edition is that 3/4's of the book consists of nine separate essays, many of which are excellent, that review a broad spectrum of topics pertaining to Descartes and his ideas. I recommend that you buy this book for the excellent supplementary materials, but look elsewhere for a modern translation (i.e. the John Cottingham translation in the 'new' Cambridge Philosophy series).
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Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters do not commonly desire more of it than they already possess. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, David Weissman, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, First Philosophy, University of California Press, European Union, Oxford University Press, New Haven, Philosophical Investigations, Presses Universitaires de France, Prince Maurits of Nassau, Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press, Yale University Press, Augustine's Confessions, Clarendon Press, Great Community, Middle Ages, Plato's Forms, Random House, Stephen Toulmin, Thomas Hobbes, Chevalier des Grieux, Collected Dialogues New!
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- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 5 pages
- The Phenomenology of Mind (Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on 4 pages
- Descartes: Discourse On Method by Laurence J. Lafleur on 4 pages
- Hypothesis and the Spiral of Reflection (S U N Y Series in Systematic Philosophy) by David Weissman on page 235, page 348, and Back Matter
- The Critique Of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant on page 113, page 234, and page 347
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- Between Faith and Thought: An Essay on the Ontotheological Condition (Studies in Religion and Culture) by Jeffrey W. Robbins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Art, Dance, and the Body in French Culture of the Ancien Régime by Sarah R. Cohen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Animal Question: Why Non-Human Animals Deserve Human Rights by Paola Cavalieri in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations (KMCI Press) by Stephen Denning in Front Matter, and page 3
- Descartes As a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism by Gary Steiner in Back Matter
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