Descartes : a biography /

"Rene Descartes is best remembered today for writing "I think, therefore I am," but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a great extent he was th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clarke, Desmond M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650.
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650
Philosophers > France > Biography.
Philosophes > France > Biographies.
Philosophers
France
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A lawyer's education
  • In search of a career (1616-1622)
  • Magic, mathematics, and mechanics: Paris, 1622-1628
  • A fabulous world (1629-1633)
  • The scientific Essays and the Discourse on Method (1633-1637)
  • Retreat and defence (1637-1639)
  • Metaphysics in a hornet's nest (1639-1642)
  • The French liar's monkey and the Utrecht crisis
  • Descartes and Princess Elizabeth
  • The Principles of Philosophy (1644)
  • The quarrel and final rift with Regius
  • Once more into battle: the Leiden theologians (1647)
  • Thoughts of retirement
  • Death in Sweden.

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