OF
Rene Descartes
(1596-1650)
Translated by
John Veitch, LL. D.
Late professor of logic and
rhetoric in the University of
Glasgow
From the Publisher’s Preface.
The present volume contains ...
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The French thinker René Descartes (1596-1650) is called the father of modern philosophy. He initiated the movement generally termed rationalism, and his Discourse on Method and Meditations defi...
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René Descartes, considered the founder of modern philosophy, also played an important role in what is now called the scientific revolution, which inaugurated the modern conception of scientific...
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René Descartes, often known by his Latin name, Renatus Cartesius, from which the adjective "Cartesian" is derived, was the prime mover behind the mechanistic conception of the human body. He wa...
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Born March 31 in La Haye, in Touraine, France, the third child of a councillor of the parliament of Brittany, Descartes has often been described as the father of modern philosophy. He was educated at ...
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René Descartes was an analytical genius. He conceived and articulated ideas about the nature of knowledge that were essential to the Enlightenment and created the philosophical underpinnings fo...
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René Descartes is often called the father of modern philosophy for his break with the Scholastic tradition that had previously dominated Western thought. Unlike the Scholastic philosophers, who...
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Descartes is often called the father of modern philosophy for his break with the Scholastic tradition that had previously dominated Western thought. Unlike the Scholastic philosophers, who respected t...
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The Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
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