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Descartes: Discourse on Method
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Focus Item #: 02594
Author/Editor/Translator: Richard Kennington, Pamela Kraus and Frank Hunt
ISBN: 978-1-58510-259-4
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Description
This Focus Philosophical Library
edition includes a new translation of Descartes' seminal discourse, with an
original essay by Richard Kennington. This text is designed to provide the
student with a close translation, notes, and a glossary of key terms,
facilitating access to ideas as they originally were presented and helping to
make the translator's work transparent.
Market
Courses in philosophy, history of
philosophy, early modern philosophy, history and/or philosophy of science, and
a wide variety of courses in humanities, great books, western civilization.
About the Authors
Richard
Kennington (1921-1999) was a professor of
philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University and The Catholic University of
America. His teaching was centered largely on seventeenth-century thinkers,
primarily Bacon and Descartes, but included also Hobbes, Leibniz, Locke, and
Spinoza. He was a serious scholar of ancient and contemporary thinkers, such as
Plato, Aristotle, and Heidegger, on whom he frequently lectured. A collection
of his writings, On Modern Origins, traces the transition from a classical,
largely speculative tradition in philosophy to the new meaning of nature and
theory that characterizes modern philosophy and science.
Pamela Kraus teaches at
St. John’s
College in
Annapolis,
Maryland.
Frank Hunt teaches at
St. John’s
College in
Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
Additional
Information
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