Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

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This edition contains Donald Cress' completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to the Discourse on Method , bringing this version even closer to Descartes' original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

This edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.

"The new version of Cress's translation of Descartes's Meditations has attained an unusually high degree of readability. . and, at the same time, of fidelity to the original.  This combination . . . makes the work especially suitable for classroom use." —Roger Ariew, University of South Florida, and Marjorie Grene (1910-2009), Virginia Polytechnic Institute


"An excellent edition and the price is fair." —Alan Soble, University of New Orleans
Donald A. Cress is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Parkside. His translations of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on Method are also published by Hackett.
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ISBN 13 9780872204218
ISBN 10 0872204219
Title Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Author Rene Descartes
Series Hackett Classics
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Publisher Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Year published 1999-06-15
Number of pages 128
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