A Discourse on Method: Meditations and Principles

By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy. With the celebrated words I think, therefore I am, his compelling argument swept aside ancient and medieval traditions. He deduced that human beings consist of minds and bodies, that these are totally distinct substances, and that God exists and that he ensures we can trust the evidence of our senses. Ushering in the scientific revolution of Galileo and Newton, his ideas have set the agenda for debate ever since. His philosophical methods and investigation changed the course of Western philosophy and led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics, mathematics, political theory, and ethics.

Softcover. English. Everyman. 1992. 240pp. In fair condition. Book No: 10024331