Key Philosophical Writings

Klappentext Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. Zusammenfassung Rene Descartes has been described as the "father" of modern philosophy. This selection of Descartes' writings attempt to answer central questions surrounding self! God! free-will and knowledge! using the science of thought as opposed to received wisdom based on the tenets of faith.

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• Authors: Descartes, R. Descartes, Rene Descartes
• Assisted by: Enrique Chavez-Arvizo (Editor), Chavez-Arvizo Enrique (Editor), Chavez-Arvizo Enrique (Introduction), Elizabeth S. Haldane (Translation), Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (Translation), G. R. T. Ross (Translation), G.R.T. Ross (Translation), Griffith Tom (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Wordsworth
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.01.1997
• EAN: 9781853264702
• ISBN: 978-1-85326-470-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature; Wordsworth Classics of World Literature; Classics of World Literature; Wadsworth Classics of World Li
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy