Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

by René Descartes

Book Overview

One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy

Descartes 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140447016
• ISBN13: 9780140447019
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher