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The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 2 by Dugald Murdoch, John Cottingham, René Descartes, Robert Stoothoff

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 2 Dugald Murdoch, John Cottingham, René Descartes, Robert Stoothoff ebook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521288088, 9780521288088
Page: 444
Format: pdf

During the years between 1643 and 1649, princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-80) and René Descartes (1596-1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters: thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. WARNING: This is a scientific work. ( Plekhanov, Selected Philosophical Works, Vol. The model for Spinoza was geometry, which sets out with axioms—self-evident assertions which require no proof. The Philosophical Writings of René Descartes Vol. 339.) The existence of the material universe is taken as an axiom. Elisabeth's letters are her only known philosophical writing and they show her to be an active participant in this dialogue, providing well-founded opinions and keen reactions to the philosopher's thoughts as they took shape. To the little circle around Spinoza, Descartes was seen as a source of inspiration, as a brave soul who refused to base his opinions on mere tradition, and affirmed that all we know is known by the "natural light" of reason. In the second volume, Singer studies the ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century Romantic love, as well as the transition between these two perspectives. As we are informed by Desmond M. These works fall into two broad categories. According to Singer analyzes the transition from courtly to Romantic by reference to the writings of many artists beginning with Dante and ending with Richard Wagner, as well as Neoplatonist philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. Descartes's letters were the time of the correspondence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1984). Clarke in his excellent new biography of the founder of Cartesian rationalism, “Descartes' formal education had been narrowly scholastic, and it had certainly not provided a basis for the fundamental reform of The writer of this report also expressed admiration for Engels' work in mathematics, physics, and “Philosophical propaedeutic” (Collected Works, Volume 2, New York, 1975, p.