Descartes: The World and Other Writings

by René Descartes

Book Overview

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 sceptically driven epistemology. Of its two parts, the Treatise on Light introduced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521636469
• ISBN13: 9780521636469
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"