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Descartes : selected philosophical writings / translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 1988
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- 'This new translation is designed as a replacement for the old but still widely used translation by Elizabeth Haldane and G.R.T. Ross...Unlike the Haldane and Ross edition which was translated from a composite text based on both the French and Latin editions, the present translation is made from the Latin text alone, with significant changes in the French edition indicated in the footnotes.
- Contents:
- Rules for the direction of our native intelligence
- Discourse on the method
- Optics
- Meditations on first philosophy
- Objections and replies
- Principles of philosophy
- Comments on a certain broadsheet
- Passions of the soul.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0521352649
- 0521358124
- OCLC:
- 16714045
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