{"product_id":"meditations-and-other-metaphysical-writings","title":"Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, René Descartes' \u003ci\u003eMeditations and Other Metaphysical Writings \u003c\/i\u003eis translated from the Latin with an introduction by Desmond M. Clarke in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In his \u003ci\u003eMeditations \u003c\/i\u003eof 1641, and in the \u003ci\u003eObjections and Replies \u003c\/i\u003ethat were included with the original publication, he set out to dismantle and then reconstruct the idea of the individual self and its existence. In doing so, Descartes developed a language of subjectivity that has lasted to this day, and he also took his first steps towards the view that would eventually be expressed in the epigram \u003ci\u003eCogito, ergo sum \u003c\/i\u003e('I think, therefore I am'), one of modern philosophy's most famous - and most fiercely contested - claims.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first part of a two-volume edition of Descartes' works in Penguin Classics, the second of which is \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on Method \u0026amp; Related Writings\u003c\/i\u003e, this edition includes extensive selections from the \u003ci\u003eObjections and Replies\u003c\/i\u003e, Part One of \u003ci\u003eThe Principles of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eComments on a Certain Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e and related correspondence from 1643 to 1649.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRené Descartes (1596-1650), generally regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, was born in La Haye (now called Descartes) near Tours, and educated at the Jesuit College of La Fleche. Like many of his contemporaries he contested the value of an education based on Aristotelianism and, after leaving college, attempted to resolve the sceptical crisis of his age by devising a method of reasoning modelled on the rigour and certainty of mathematics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed the \u003ci\u003eMeditations\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Immanuel Kant's \u003ci\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":56303482175832,"sku":"9780140447019","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780140447019.jpg?v=1764430235","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/meditations-and-other-metaphysical-writings","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}