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English translation on the recto, original French or Latin on the verso. The French follows the Adam-Tannery critical edition, preserving the seventeenth-century orthography of the original. Latin is used for the Geometrical Exposition.
Translation
The Discourse appears in John Veitch's translation (1850), revised to update forms archaic enough to impede contemporary reading. The Geometrical Exposition, the Letter-Preface to the Principles of Philosophy, and the fifteen letters were newly translated for this edition by the Logos Publishing editorial team.
Four texts under one cover
The Discourse on the Method in six parts; the Geometrical Exposition; the Letter-Preface to the Principles of Philosophy (1647); and fifteen letters from 1633–1638 exchanged with Mersenne, Huygens, Pollot, Noël, Morin, and others.
Editorial apparatus
The six-part structure of the Discourse is marked by headings within the text. Footnotes provide historical, biographical, and contextual commentary, identify Descartes's sources, and offer occasional philosophical glosses.
Glossary of Cartesian terms
33 entries covering the principal terms of Descartes's philosophical vocabulary, each with a definition, the original French or Latin term, philosophical context, and cross-references.
Editorial note
Hardcover binding
Durable, premium hardcover with a ribbon marker, designed for a lifetime on your shelf, and an additional thematic bookmark.
Logos Reader included
Includes a special issue of the Logos Reader dedicated to Descartes's life, philosophical system, and intellectual legacy.
Discourse on the Method and Related Texts
Descartes and His Philosophical System A Logos Reader original covering Descartes's life and intellectual formation, the four rules of method, the methodical doubt and the cogito, the proofs of God's existence, the real distinction between mind and body, his mechanical philosophy, and the Cartesian legacy.
"On Descartes's Discourse on Method," by Thomas Henry Huxley A lecture delivered in 1870, reading Descartes as the common ancestor of two great branches of modern thought: the critical idealism that runs through Berkeley and Hume to Kant, and the physiological materialism that runs through La Mettrie and Priestley to modern science.
"Essay on Descartes's Philosophy," by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl Originally published in 1903, this essay reconstructs the internal logic of Cartesian thought: the decisive break with scholasticism, the sovereignty granted to reason by the rule of evidence, the role of analytic geometry as a model of method, and the lasting imprint Cartesianism left on the French philosophical tradition from the eighteenth century through the Revolution and into the nineteenth.
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