“The reason why many people are convinced that there is difficulty in knowing God, and even in knowing what their soul is, is that they never raise their mind above sensible objects, and are so used to think of things only by way of imagining them (a mode of thought specially adapted to material things) that whatever is unimaginable appears to them l unintelligible.”
Translated by Elizabeth Anscombe and Peter Geach, this selection of Descartes's philosophical writings covers a remarkable amount of ground. Besides the Discourse and the Meditations, it contains Private Thoughts, the third set of Objections and Replies, most of the Regulae, parts of the Principia and the Dioptrics and many important and illuminating letters from Descartes's philosophical correspondence with Elizabeth, Princess Palatine, Mersenne and others.
Author: Descartes
Title: Philosophical Writings
Edition: Seventh printing
Published: London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1966
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 303p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket (price-clipped) with edge wear and toning—in new protector. Boards and spine clean and bright with bumping to corners and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid and square. Pages tanned. Slight foxing on top edge.
Comments: Solid copy
