Descartes: The World and Other Writings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521636469)

Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. Above all, it provides an insight into how Descartes conceived of natural philosophy before he started to reformulate his doctrines in terms of a skeptically-driven epistemology. This volume offers a new translation of the work together with related writings that illuminate it, including the first English translation of the complete text of The Description of the Human Body.

Author: René Descartes
ISBN-10: 0521636469
ISBN-13: 9780521636469
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/26/1998
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.99w x 0.57d