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Best known for the quote from his Meditations de prima philosophia, or Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), "I think therefore I am," philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes also devoted much of his time to the studies of medicine, anatomy and meteorology. Part of his Discourse on the mehr anzeigen Method for Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Searching for the Truth in the Sciences (1637) became the foundation for analytic geometry. Descartes is also credited with designing a machine to grind hyperbolic lenses, as part of his interest in optics. Rene Descartes was born in 1596 in La Haye, France. He began his schooling at a Jesuit college before going to Paris to study mathematics and to Poitiers in 1616 to study law. He served in both the Dutch and Bavarian military and settled in Holland in 1629. In 1649, he moved to Stockholm to be a philosophy tutor to Queen Christina of Sweden. He died there in 1650. Because of his general fame and philosophic study of the existence of God, some devout Catholics, thinking he would be canonized a saint, collected relics from his body as it was being transported to France for burial. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von René Descartes

Geometrie (1637) 257 Exemplare
Descartes: Philosophical Writings (1954) 224 Exemplare
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Principles of Philosophy (1967) 144 Exemplare
Descartes Selections (1927) 139 Exemplare
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Descartes : Oeuvres et lettres (1953) — Autor — 63 Exemplare
Essential Works of Descartes (1961) 45 Exemplare
Meditations & Other Writings (2011) 42 Exemplare
Philosophical Letters (1970) 25 Exemplare
Descartes (1979) 24 Exemplare
The World (1979) 22 Exemplare
Valda skrifter (1990) 14 Exemplare
The Works of Rene Descartes (2010) 12 Exemplare
Le passioni dell'anima (2003) 12 Exemplare
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De uitgelezen Descartes (1999) 11 Exemplare
Os Pensadores: Descartes (1973) 11 Exemplare
Il Mondo. L'uomo (1996) 8 Exemplare
Ausgewählte Schriften (1980) 6 Exemplare
René Descartes (1991) — Autor — 6 Exemplare
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René Descartes (1960) 5 Exemplare
Principios da Filosofia (2009) 4 Exemplare
Méditations métaphysiques (2021) 4 Exemplare
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Segno e linguaggio (2000) 3 Exemplare
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Selected Writings (1995) 2 Exemplare
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Opera philosophica 2 Exemplare
Correspondance t.2 (2013) 2 Exemplare
Correspondance t.1 (2013) 2 Exemplare
Lettres sur l'amour (2013) 2 Exemplare
Soylem Kurallar Meditasyonlar (2013) 2 Exemplare
Zasady filozofii 1 Exemplar
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Meditacions metafísiques (2011) 1 Exemplar
Opere 1 Exemplar
Metafizik Üzerine 1 Exemplar
Lettere 1619-1648 (2015) 1 Exemplar
Méditations 1 Exemplar
Briefe 1629 - 1650 1 Exemplar
Discourse on the Method (2018) 1 Exemplar
Dioptryka (2018) 1 Exemplar
He Freed the Minds of Men (1969) 1 Exemplar
Сочинения (2006) 1 Exemplar
Treatise On Man — Autor — 1 Exemplar
O Discurso do Método (1990) 1 Exemplar
Oeuvres et lettres 1 Exemplar
Texte Fundamentale 1 Exemplar
Rinktiniai raštai 1 Exemplar
Os pensadores 1 Exemplar
Oeuvres choisies 1 Exemplar
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Discurso Del Metodo, El (1972) 1 Exemplar
Selections 1 Exemplar
O discurso do método (1989) 1 Exemplar
Lumea 1 Exemplar
Selections (1955) 1 Exemplar
El discurso del método (2020) 1 Exemplar
Obras completas 1 Exemplar
Opere scientifiche 1 Exemplar
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El discurso del Metodo (1974) 1 Exemplar
Philosophie Jetzt! Descartes (1997) 1 Exemplar
Cartas 1 Exemplar
Lettres (2005) 1 Exemplar
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Briefe 1 Exemplar
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Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Descartes, René
Rechtmäßiger Name
Descartes, René
Andere Namen
Cartesius, Renatus
Geburtstag
1596-03-31
Todestag
1650-02-11
Begräbnisort
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, Frankreich
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
Frankreich
Land (für Karte)
France
Geburtsort
La Haye en Touraine, Frankreich
Sterbeort
Stockholm, Schweden
Todesursache
Maladie (Pneumonie)
Wohnorte
La Haye en Touraine, Frankreich
La Flèche, Frankreich
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Frankreich
Poitiers, Frankreich
Franeker, Friesland, Niederlande
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Niederlande (Zeige alle 17)
Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Niederlande
Deventer, Overijssel, Niederlande
Harderwijk, Gelderland, Niederlande
Utrecht, Utrecht, Niederlande
Amersfoort, Utrecht, Niederlande
Leeuwarden, Friesland, Niederlande
Oegstgeest, Noord-Holland, Niederlande
Santpoort, Noord-Holland, Niederlande
Egmond aan den Hoef, Noord-Holland, Niederlande
Egmond Binnen, Noord-Holland, Niederlande
Stockholm, Schweden
Ausbildung
University of Poitiers (1616)
Jesuit College, La Fleche
Berufe
Philosoph
Mathematiker
Schriftsteller
Autor
Soldat (Bayrische Armee)
Lehrer
Beziehungen
Bohemia, Princess Elisabeth of (Korrespondent)
Organisationen
Armée du duc Maximilien de Bavière (1919|1623)
Ecole de guerre de Maurice de Nassau, Price d'Orange, Pays-Bas (1918|1919)
Kurzbiographie
René Descartes, the French philosopher, mathematician, and writer, is known as the father of modern philosophy and the father of analytical geometry. He was a pioneer of rationalist thought and a key figure in the Scientific Revolution of the 16th-17th centuries in Europe; his influence is still felt today. He's perhaps best known in our day for the statement, "cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), found in his Discourse on the Method (1637) and Principles of Philosophy (1644).

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This is a useful compendium of the most famous of Descartes' philosophical writings. A contemporary translation includes both the Discourse and the well-known Meditations on First Philosophy.
 
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jwhenderson | Jun 5, 2024 |
Best thing I've read by Descartes so far
 
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AnkaraLibrary | Mar 6, 2024 |
Even though he purports to sweep the slate clean and start from scratch it doesn't feel like it. He starts with "I think therefore i am" and i am quite content with that but then out of nowhere he produces perfection, imperfection, dependency, composition and other concepts which without first analysing and defining he uses to construct God and other things. That really baffled me for it didn't feel at all like a rigorous approach. Though when i think about it it doesn't seem possible to define things without having some things already defined so the whole clean slate approach is not possible in the absolute. He had to start somewhere, with some precepts but i just don't like the precepts he chose for start. Too much was presupposed for my liking.
Still the book was delightful especially for the glimpses into Rene's life and his struggles around philosophising and publication.
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