Cosimo Classics: Discourse on the Method and the Meditations (Paperback)

from LisaMaria_C

These are undeniably important works. The introduction calls Descartes the "originator of modern philosophy." This is also very lucidly written--I think the arguments are perfectly accessible to the layman, it's just I don't think much of them. The full title of the first treatise of only 54 page...

from blake.rosser

Since Descartes is one of the most famous modern philosophers, it was interesting to see how blatantly illogical most of his argument is. When I say most, I'm talking about everything that comes after, "I think, therefore I am." Quite accessible though, as far as philosophy goes.

from mattries37315

Modern philosophy began in the Netherlands by a French mathematician inspired by the events of the Thirty-Years War in Germany. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy are the first two treatise by French mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes that would that would not only ...

from Velmeran

It was worth reading this for the foundation it provides, but it was a bit chewy to me.

from askar

Descartes establishes "doubt", of everything that cannot be absolutely ascertained to the thinker's immediate awareness, as a foundation for further philosophical research. He does this through the famous "Cogito" where a thinker's perception of his own thinking cannot be doubted by him. And here...