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Descartes’ System of Natural Philosophy

By Stephen Gaukroger

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780521005258, 0521005256, 0521808979
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1658688 bytes)
Pages
267\267
Library
www.knigka.info
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Towards the end of his life, Descartes published the first four parts of a projected six-part work, The Principles of Philosophy. This was intended to be the definitive statement of his complete system of philosophy, dealing with everything from cosmology to the nature of human happiness. Stephen Gaukroger examines the system, and reconstructs the last two parts, "On Living Things" and "On Man", from Descartes' other writings. He relates the work to the tradition of late Scholastic textbooks which it follows, and also to Descartes' other philosophical writings.

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