Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Meditations on First Philosophy; Objctions against the Meditations and Replies; The Geometry. Spinoza: Ethics (Great Books of the Western World, 31)

by Rene Descartes, Benedict De Spinoza

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Elena P
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More complex than the Discourse, but more obscure. In "Meditations", Descartes emphasizes the argument over God's existence and it is just another form of the ontological argument. More interesting than this, I think, there would be the description of the reason, as means to reach the truth and the inborn ideas. A representative book for Descartes' philosophy, especially, as the title says it, metaphysics.

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sarah
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I think Descartes was a little arrogant. You can argue his wax analogy or whatever it is but I say wax is wax and melted wax is melted wax. It's all in a name. And innate ideas? Are you serious?

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