Descartes selections

by Rene (from the estate of Chaim Potok) Descartes

the writings of Descartes-

All and all, it's a nice pocket sized version w/ more than a little history to it. When it was published WW I was over and the stock market hadn't yet crashed in 1929. Amazing to think about.

And yet, Descartes writings are completely uneffected by recent history.

Genres: Philosophy

403 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1927

Reviews

[Randall Secrest · Rating 5 out of 5]

The age needed both Galileo and Descartes, however Galileo's pick and choosing method did not approach Descartes searched for the first causes of nature.

He chose to understand the overall, the whole, he chose to see nature as a complete scheme, whose principles are linked together as are the axioms and theorems of a mathematical system.

Scientific Method and the Criticism of Knowledge - Metaphysics, Cosmology, Physics - Physiology, Psychology, Ethics - Descartes marks the intellectual transition from the Middle Ages to the modern world, the reality of mechanical science that has brought the European mind into the twentieth century, flows from his philosophy.

What is truth? read Descartes...

[Erik Graff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Taking The History of Classical Modern Philosophy during my first semester in Loyola University Chicago's graduate program, we were required to read a lot of Descartes. I supplemented the assigned readings by going through the books I already possessed by the author, one of which was this collection. Having already read some of the material, I only read the critical apparatus and those selections which had not been assigned.