René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With by John Cottingham

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By John Cottingham

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, released in Latin in 1641, is among the most generally studied philosophical texts of all time, and inaugurates a number of the key subject matters that experience remained relevant to philosophy ever seeing that. In his unique Latin textual content Descartes expresses himself with nice lucidity and magnificence, and there's huge, immense curiosity, even when you are usually not fluent in Latin, in seeing how the well-known options and arguments of his nice masterpiece spread within the unique language. John Cottingham's acclaimed English translation of the paintings is gifted the following in a facing-page variation along the unique Latin textual content. scholars of classical philosophy have lengthy had the advantage of dual-language variants, and the provision of any such source for the canonical works of the early-modern interval is lengthy late. This quantity now makes on hand, in a useful dual-language layout, some of the most seminal texts of Western philosophy.

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