Meditations And Other Metaphysical Writings

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: Reprint

Description: 208 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: I shall imagine myself as if I had no hands, no eyes, no flesh, no blood, no senses at allDescartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In his Meditations of 1641, and in the Objections and Replies that were included with the original publication, he set out to dismantle and then reconstruct the idea of the individual self and its existence. In doing so, Descartes developed a language of subjectivity that has lasted to this day and also took his first steps towards the view that would eventually be expressed in the epigram Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am), one of modern philosophys most famous and most fiercely controversial claims.The first part of a two-volume edition of Descartes works in Penguin Classics, this edition includes extensive selections from the Objections and Replies, Part One of The Principles of Philosophy, Comments on a Certain Manifesto and related correspondence from 1643 to 1649.

ISBN: 9780140447019