Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed. by Rene Descartes, Donald Cress ISBN: 0-87220-420-0 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Translation of an Indispensible Text
Comment: Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy of 1641 is one of the four or five most important and most influential works in the history of philosophy. It expresses an understanding of the independent power of the human mind that was pivotal to the scientific revolution, and that continues to shape our everyday perception of our own human reality. The subsequent history of philosophy is largely classified according to how it responds to this work. This is an excellent translation, and it is helpfully bound with Descartes' Discourse on Method. It is cheap, and well-manufactured, and is the textbook I normally use when teaching this material.
Rating: 2
Summary: Good methods, okay read
Comment: Descartes' Enlightenment exploration of himself and the world in which he lives is easy to understand because his methods are easy to understand. This book is extremely repetitive and, by the time I finished reading it, I was surprised he spent all that time talking just to make a few points. I wasn't, however, blown away by his logic. It was simply an "okay" read and possibly even better for the time in which it was written.
Rating: 5
Summary: I can't be positive, but I think he blew my mind.
Comment: Reading Descartes is like a breath of fresh air. Frankly I'm surprised no one has reviewed this before now. Reading Descartes is kind of like being informed you were going to die today, but were miraculously saved at the last moment, all without your knowledge. It changes your version of the world in the way only really good poetry can. He is so logical it makes his writings and thought process really clear and concise and this translation seems really user friendly to a layman like myself. I can't be positive, but I think he blew my mind.
 |
Title: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp ISBN: 0198752482 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Five Dialogues by Plato, G. M. A. Grube ISBN: 0872206335 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
 |
Title: The Republic by Plato ISBN: 0486411214 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 18 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
 |
Title: Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes, T. Hobbs, C. B. MacPherson ISBN: 0140431950 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: June, 1982 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
 |
Title: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: With on a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns by Immanuel Kant, James W. Ellington ISBN: 087220166X Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
