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Subject(s)

• Descartes, René 1596-1650 [Browse]

Series

Wadsworth philosophers series. [More in this series]

Summary note

An introduction to the thought of Descartes, for undergraduate students, focusing on his role in the struggle between the emerging modern science and medieval religious and scholastic thought and his contribution to the conceptual revolution which made contemporary society possible.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-89).

Contents

• Context
• Life well hidden
• Rules for a method
• World
• Challenge of doubt
• Cogito
• God brings the world
• Matter
• Animals and machines
• Living in the mechanical world
• Passions of the body.

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ISBN

0534575935

LCCN

^^^00698540^

OCLC

44402492

RCP

H - O

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