| ID | 018598 |
| Call Number | 194/DES |
| Title Proper | Meditations and other metaphysical writings |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Descartes, René ; Clarke, Desmond, M.(Tr.) |
| Publication | London, Penguin, 2003. |
| Description | viii, 213p Black spine |
| Series | Penguin classics |
| Note | Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. He set out to dismantle and reconstruct the idea of the individual self and its existence. In doing so, Descartes developed a language of subjectivity that lasted to this day and he also took his first steps towards the view that would eventually be expressed in the epigram Cogito, ergo sum, ("I think, therefore I am") one of philosophy's most famous - and most fiercely contested - claims. |
| Standard Number | 978140447019 |
| Price. Qualification | £9.99(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 194 |
| Key Words | IBDP ; TOK ; Philosophy - Early works to 1800 ; Metaphysics - Early works to 1800 ; First philosophy - Early works to 1800 |