Meditations on First Philosophy

by René Descartes, John Veitch (Translator)

Overview

Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise by René Descartes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781978467446
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/20/2017
Pages:	78
Sales rank:	475,904
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

René Descartes (1596 - 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and writer of the Age of Reason. He has been called the "Father of Modern Philosophy", and much of subsequent Western philosophy can be seen as a response to his writings. He is responsible for one of the best-known quotations in philosophy: "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am").

He was a pioneer and major figure in 17th Century Continental Rationalism (often known as Cartesianism) later advocated by Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz, and opposed by the British Empiricist school of thought of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. He represents a major break with the Aristotelianism and Scholasticism of the Medieval period.