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100 1 _aGaukroger, Stephen
245 1 0 _aDescartes :
_h[electronic resource]
_ban intellectual biography /
_cStephen Gaukroger
260 _aNew York
_bOxford University Press
_c1995.
264 1 _aOxford :
_bClarendon Press ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c1995
300 _axx, 499 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 'A learned and eloquent piety' -- An education in propriety, 1606-1618 -- The apprenticeship with Beeckman, 1618-1619 -- The search for method, 1619-1625 -- The Paris years, 1625-1628 -- A new beginning, 1629-1630 -- A new system of the world, 1630-1633 -- The years of consolidation, 1634-1640 -- The defence of natural philosophy, 1640-1644, Melancholia and the passions, 1643-1650 -- Notes
520 _aRene Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest of all thinkers. This is the first intellectual biography of Descartes in English; it offers a fundamental reassessment of all aspects of his life and work. Stephen Gaukroger, a leading authority on Descartes, traces his intellectual development from childhood, showing the connections between his intellectual and personal life and placing these in the cultural context of seventeenth-century Europe
520 8 _aDescartes' early work in mathematics and science produced ground-breaking theories, methods, and tools still in use today. This book gives the first full account of how this work informed and influenced the later philosophical studies for which, above all, Descartes is renowned. Not only were philosophy and science intertwined in Descartes' life; so were philosophy and religion. The Church of Rome found Galileo guilty of heresy in 1633; two decades earlier, Copernicus' theories about the universe had been denounced as blasphemous. To avoid such accusations, Descartes clothed his views about the relation between God and humanity, and about the nature of the universe, in a philosophical garb acceptable to the Church. His most famous project was the exploration of the foundations of human knowledge, starting from the proof of one's own existence offered in the formula Cogito ergo sum, 'I am thinking therefore I exist'
520 8 _aStephen Gaukroger argues that this was not intended as an exercise in philosophical scepticism, but rather to provide Descartes' scientific theories, influenced as they were by Copernicus and Galileo, with metaphysical legitimation. This book offers for the first time a full understanding of how Descartes developed his revolutionary ideas. It will be a landmark publication, welcomed by all readers interested in the origins of modern thought
600 1 0 _aDescartes, Ren©♭,
_d1596-1650
650 0 _aPhilosophers
_zFrance
_vBiography
653 0 _aFrance
653 0 _aPhilosophy
655 7 _aBiography.
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856 _uhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1f2ij0w79__YnxW1kyUaLAjpiTRCAsdYg/view?usp=sharing
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