Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings

by Renee Descartes , Edited by John Cottingham , Robert Stoothoff , Dugald Murdoch , Anthony Kenny

• ISBN13: 9780521358125
• ISBN10: 0521358124
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781107263635, 9781107266193
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-02-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Based on the new and much acclaimed two-volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of those writings, including the Discourse and Meditations and substantial extracts from the Regulae, Optics, Principles, Objectives and Replies, Comments on a Broadsheet, and Passions of the Soul. In clear, readable, modern English, with a full text and running references to the standard Franco-Latin edition of Descartes, this book is planned as the definitive one-volume reader for all English-speaking students of Descartes.

Table of Contents

General introduction	vii	(5)
Chronological table of Descartes' life and works	xii
Rules for the Direction of our Native Intelligence	1	(19)
Discourse on the Method	20	(37)
Optics	57	(16)
Meditations on First Philosophy	73	(50)
Objections and Replies	123	(37)
Principles of Philosophy	160	(53)
Comments on a Certain Broadsheet	213	(5)
The Passions of the Soul	218	(21)
Index	239