A discourse on the method of correctly conducting one's reason and seeking truth in the sciences / R...
A discourse on the method of correctly conducting one's reason and seeking truth in the sciences / R...
A discourse on the method of correctly conducting one's reason and seeking truth in the sciences / René Descartes ; translated with an introduction and notes by Ian Maclean.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
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N194/198
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English
French
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Physical content
lxxv, 84 p.
Contents
The presentation of the project -- Intellectual autobiography -- Precepts in philosophy and ethics -- Metaphysics and epistemology -- Physics and physiology.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
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England
Date Published
c2006.
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"Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought. In it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography in the vernacular for a non-specialist readership, sweeps away all previous philosophical traditions, and sets out in brief his radical...
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A discourse on the method of correctly conducting one's reason and seeking truth in the sciences / René Descartes ; translated with an introduction and notes by Ian Maclean.
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Oxford world's classics.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Translated from the French.
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N194/198
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74VKK3DZQXGA
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0192825143 (alk. paper)
9780192825148 (alk. paper)
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194
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991021849869702626
