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Fully named Discourse on the Method for Reasoning Well and for Seeking Truth in the Sciences, this work offers the most complete presentation and defense of Rene Descartes' method of intellectual inquiry - a method that greatly influenced both philosophical and scientific reasoning in the early modern world. Descartes's timeless ideas strike an uncommon balance of novelty and familiarity, offering arguments concerning knowledge, science, and metaphysics (including the famous ""I think, therefore I am"") that are as compelling in the 21st century as they were in the 17th.
Ian Johnston's new translation of the original French text is modern, clear, and thoroughly annotated, ideal for readers unfamiliar with Descartes' intellectual context. An approachable introduction engages both the historical and the philosophical aspects of the text, enabling the reader to interpret this easily misunderstoodwork within Descartes' larger project. This edition joins Broadview's growing list of affordable classic texts from the philosophical canon, adapted from Andrew Bailey's popular anthology series First Philosophy.
Fully named Discourse on the Method for Reasoning Well and for Seeking Truth in the Sciences, this work offers the most complete presentation and defense of Rene Descartes' method of intellectual inquiry - a method that greatly influenced both philosophical and scientific reasoning in the early modern world. Descartes's timeless ideas strike an uncommon balance of novelty and familiarity, offering arguments concerning knowledge, science, and metaphysics (including the famous ""I think, therefore I am"") that are as compelling in the 21st century as they were in the 17th.
Ian Johnston's new translation of the original French text is modern, clear, and thoroughly annotated, ideal for readers unfamiliar with Descartes' intellectual context. An approachable introduction engages both the historical and the philosophical aspects of the text, enabling the reader to interpret this easily misunderstoodwork within Descartes' larger project. This edition joins Broadview's growing list of affordable classic texts from the philosophical canon, adapted from Andrew Bailey's popular anthology series First Philosophy.
Andrew Bailey is Associate Professor of Philosophy
and Associate Dean of Arts at the University of Guelph, Canada.
Ian Johnston is Professor Emeritus at Vancouver
Island University, Canada and has translated numerous works from
Greek, French, German, and Latin.
“Ian Johnston’s new translation of Descartes’s famous Discourse on
Method will stand with the best and most readable translations now
available in English. For readers coming to Descartes’s work for
the first time, Andrew Bailey’s introduction nicely situates the
text both philosophically and historically.”- Kurt Smith,
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
“Descartes’s Discourse on Method is incredibly rich: it motivates
readers to think critically, it introduces Descartes’s ethics as
well as his metaphysics, and it aims to show the power of reasoning
well. Ian Johnston’s translation is clear and accessible to
students while remaining true to the original text.”- Lisa Shapiro,
Simon Fraser University
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