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Discourse on Method and Related Writings by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
$9.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. It includes "Discourse on Method", the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scien ...Show more
Discourse on Method and the Meditations by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy a ...Show more
Rene Descartes - Meditations and Other Writings by Rene Descartes
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' "Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings" is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Desmond M. Clarke in "Penguin Classics". Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those thin ...Show more
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