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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking for Truth in the Sciences 3
2 Meditations on First Philosophy 49
Essay 1 Introduction 111
Essay 2 Descartes in His Time 121
Essay 3 Metaphysics 147
Essay 4 Epistemology 236
Essay 5 Physics and Mathematics 272
Essay 6 Political Theory and Ethics 306
Essay 7 Psychoanalysis 330
Essay 8 Literature and the Arts 349
Essay 9 Descartes in Our Time 371