Discurso del Metodo (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

from chriszodrow

This book marks the shift in philosophical speculation, from the Nature-Grace ethos of the Medieval age to that of Nature-Freedom of the Enlightenment. Descartes essentially put an X through the then standing assumptions regarding knowledge. Agree or disagree, this book defines much of Western th...

from jculkin

Like a warm bath for the mind, and takes about as long - parts 1-4 at least. Reading it in English, I wonder if he is so straightforward and readable in French. Parts 1-4 are eloquent and minimal, and certainly worth re-reading - meditations of reason. Part 5, home to the famous 'cogito ergo sum'...

from Aimapotis

Absolutely fundamental to understand Descartes philosophy

from mjklin

Interesting first part where he "debunks" the previous history of philosophy; but what was all that stuff about the motion of the blood and heart towards the end?

from soniaandree

Travail de philosophie classique, ce livre est un essentiel des bibliothèques Françaises.