A Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy
- Author Rene Descartes
- Narrator James Adams
- Publisher Craig Black
- Publish Date 23 October 2009
- Run Time 8 hours and 8 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800.
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This three-part work includes A Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.
By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy. With the celebrated words “I think, therefore I am,” his compelling argument swept aside ancient and medieval traditions. He deduced that human beings consist of minds and bodies, that these are totally distinct “substances,” and that God exists and that he ensures we can trust the evidence of our senses. Ushering in the “scientific revolution” of Galileo and Newton, his ideas have set the agenda for debate ever since. His philosophical methods and investigation changed the course of Western philosophy and led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics, mathematics, political theory, and ethics.
Critics Review
“His aim was certainty—the kind of certainty that did not rely upon unobserved entities for the explanation of natural events nor upon the authority of learned theologians but by submitting everything to reason, in short by extending the clearness and distinctness of mathematical ideas and proofs to all spheres of human knowledge and to knowledge itself.”
| Author | Rene Descartes |
|---|---|
| Narrator | James Adams |
| Duration | 8 hours and 8 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781481569293 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Craig Black |
| Genre | Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800 |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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