Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

The Olympian Dreams and Youthful Rebellion of Rene Descartes

The Olympian Dreams and Youthful Rebellion of Rene Descartes( )
Author: Cole, John R.
ISBN:978-0-252-01870-1
Publication Date:Apr 1992
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $34.95
Book Description:

Rene Descartes's motto challenges his would-be historians: He lives well who hides well. He hid even in the Discourse on Method, where he professed to recount the story of his entire life, but said almost nothing about his childhood and youth. He mentioned neither family nor friends, and he boasted a total freedom from irrational passions. In the Discourse, which presented a new way of achieving certain truth through mathematical reason, Descartes stressed just one event, a day of...
More Description

Book Details
Pages:312
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / Individual Philosophers
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.15 Inches
Book Weight:1.33 Pounds



Featured Books

Master Slave Husband Wife
Woo, Ilyon
Paperback: $19.99
Meditations
Aurelius Marcus
Hardback: $72.00
The Book of Love
Link, Kelly
Hardback: $31.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.