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I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.

The Continental Rationalists. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. Meditations on First Philosophy, "First Meditation"

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The Continental Rationalists. Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-224-4

Language: English translation

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Cover: Geometria, René Descartes Amsterdam: L. & D. Elzevir, 1659-1661

List of Contents

René Descartes

Descartes, René. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. Vols. 1 and 2. Translated by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch. Oxford; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

  • Vol. 1:

    • Early Writings
    • Rules for the Direction of the Mind
    • The World
    • Treatise on Man
    • Discourse on the Method
    • Optics
    • Principles of Philosophy
    • Comments on a Certain Broadsheet
    • Description of the Human Body
    • The Passions of the Soul
  • Vol. 2:

    • Meditations on First Philosophy
    • Objections and Replies
    • Letter to Father Dinet
    • The Search for Truth

Benedict de Spinoza

Spinoza, Benedict de. The Collected Works of Spinoza. Translated by Edwin Curley. Vol. 1. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.

  • Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
  • Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being
  • Letters: August 1661-August 1663
  • Parts I and II of Descartes’"Principles of Philosophy"
  • Letters: July 1664-September 1665
  • Ethics

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

New Essays on Human Understanding. Translated by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

_____. Philosophical Essays. Translated by Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1989.



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