The Selections From The Principles Of Philosophy by René Descartes
A concise, systematic presentation of foundational metaphysics and natural philosophy that argues knowledge must rest on clear and distinct first principles; it develops proofs for the existence and benevolent role of God as guarantor of truth, posits a strict distinction between immaterial thinking substance and extended material substance, and treats physical phenomena mechanistically—defining matter as extension in space, denying the vacuum, and explaining motion and natural laws in geometric and causal terms.
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- 1644
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- Latin
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- Les Principes de la Philosophie
- Principia Philosophiae
- Principles of Philosophy
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