The Essential Writings of Descartes: Discourse on Method (Complete), Meditations on First Philosophy (Complete), and Selections from the Principles of Philosophy

The Essential Writings of Rene Descartes (1596–1650) contains the Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Selections from the Principles of Philosophy. In these celebrated works, Descartes rejects the Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, and constructs a new philosophy that emphasizes the subject’s capacity to know reality through conceptual analysis. These highly-influential works, collected here in one volume, set the parameters for all subsequent philosophical debates.