Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed. |
|
|
|
| Title: | Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed. |
| Author: | Rene Descartes
Donald Cress (Translator) |
| Publisher: | Hackett Pub Co |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 01 June, 1999 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0872204200 / 9780872204201 |
| List Price: | $9.50 |
| Amazon Price: | $9.50 |
|
This book is also available, brand-new, from 3rd-party marketplace sellers at Amazon.com, from $5.07.
|
The HTML code below can be pasted onto your web-site, your MySpace page, or blog - or any number of similar places - to create a link to this page:
If, instead of a text link, you'd like to create a link to this page which will display the book cover, if it's available, then the code below will do exactly that:
Check for the same book at these other US book sites:
• [ Abebooks ]
• [ Alibris ]
• [ Barnes & Noble ]
• [ Half.com ]
• [ Powells ]
… or check UK bookstores
|
Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.
|
Other Items You May Enjoy:
Browse Books From These Related Subjects:
Customer Reviews:
• Cogito Ergo Sum
26 April, 2009
Descartes is reasonably approachable for a philosopher - and he discusses his theory on being "Cogito ero sum", as well as the proof for the existence of God. If you are in to philosophy, this is a good read.
- Amazon Customer Review
• The Cart Was Put Before The Horse
09 September, 2007
Rene Descartes can go to a circle in hades for his mathmatics but his discourse on religion was flawed he had to first prove to himself he existed before he could prove God existed, there is the rub. He is justly regarded as the Father of Modern Philosophy because of the questions and problems he created. He helped to distinquish philosophy from science, which is a saving grace. This is a great addition to any library, since it serves to illustrate the evolution of philosophy in our civilization. I would also recommend Deism In American Thought by Woodbridge Riley and of course the Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Cogito Ergo Sum
03 February, 2010
This little book changed my world view when I read it almost three decades ago. The author personal history is very close to mine as well the way we handle the problem to discover the world.
"I think, so I am" has very deep implication on or everyday Cosmology - the main of them is to be convinced we are not living in an illusion!
Great book.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Relavant. Tho Written During The Enlightenment, Could Help You Rethink.
12 February, 2010
So why do I say relevant? I sat through all of public school and mostly kept quiet feeling that most endeavors were either necessary but absurd or absurd & unnecessary. And why is this? Some of us just can't find adequate teachers early enough or even know that we need one. Let's face it. Most people will not see the relevancy of this book not because they have moved beyond this Enlightenment-era style inquiry, they just don't see the world with any depth. And from these 'modern' philosophers it's a straight shot to the existentialists and from there? Well Descartes can stimulate a mind in such a way that it will not ever be (completely) satisfied, which is exactly the way a mind stays healthy and a person stays able to function as an intellectual (which essentially means functioning as a fugitive in our culture, using the term poetically). People go around saying "I think therefore, I am" and of course have no idea of its context but instead use it to assert their identity. All I can say is that this is well worth reading. And especially if you are new to philosophy, I would never recommend another place to start. The continuum starting with Descartes and ending with Kant is absolutely fascinating. Most of what is discovered is what the mind can't do. Also, comes the awareness of how strongly linked truth is to language that of course has its own inherit and somewhat arbitrary logic. And then, when the implications of this continuum sink in, the 19th and 20th Century Existentialists and Absurdists come along. I believe that without the philosophers starting with Descartes it is impossible to see how and why the questions of 20th century Existentialism were and are still so pertinent. In fact, I believe that only at a point where much deeper abstraction is attainable through years of contemplation, I would declare George Berkeley and David Hume more pertinant than Socrates (Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Socrates).
I'm just a poet and have even had my usefulness or lack thereof contemplated by the likes of Descartes (Heidegger). I don't read much philosophy anymore because the universities have made philosophy courses hostile for theists and thinkers that place a heavy influence on the importance of language. Also, I believe the current self-identified philosophers to be power-hungry in the worst way. However, a philosophical pursuit is by nature personal and therefore as in most cases the most capable practitioners leave the institutions behind. It is sad that many of the humanities are almost exclusively being pursued in universities. I know in the case of poets, it seems the idea is to gain sufficient respect and find a nice hideout (a tenured position). And, when only the writers are reading, what in hell is the purpose? This tangent, I write in the hopes to disillusion the multitudes who book after book hope to put on the semblance of study & contemplation. Also, I write to perhaps to emphasize to anyone (especially students) that will read the book to open a door of perception: don't expect good company. There just aren't many people doing things for intrinsic or spiritual value or would even know how to go about such a thing. Blah Blah Blah amounts my heap of words politics invades churches thinkers learn to conform. Thus we have the 21st Century.
Celebrate free thought unceasingly with others when possible which is the highest joy & by yourself when necessary which isn't so bad when you're tapped into the music of the universe.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Never Got Book!!!!
27 February, 2010
I never recieved this book all i got was a Shick Ladies razor it came in same pack as the Geneology book.I will NEVER order off Amazon again and think a refund is neccesicary.I had to go buy the book at the campus bookstore for a total of 14.76 .Its making submit a star review but to get this posted i have to enter at least one but its definitly a zero out of five
- Amazon Customer Review
|
