René Descartes has written at least 79 books. Their most popular book is Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies with 54 saves with an average rating of 3.76⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Classics, Philosophy, and First philosophy.
René Descartes, also known as Renatus Cartesius, was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy", and much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which continue to be studied closely to this day. In particular, his Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes' influence in mathematics is also apparent; the Cartesian coordinate system—allowing geometric shapes to be expressed in algebraic equations—was named after him. He is credited as the father of analytical geometry. Descartes was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution.
Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors. In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, a treatise on the Early Modern version of what are now commonly called emotions, Descartes goes so far as to assert that he will write on this topic "as if no one had written on these matters before". Many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like St. Augustine. In his natural philosophy, he differs from the Schools on two major points: First, he rejects the analysis of corporeal substance into matter and form; second, he rejects any appeal to ends—divine or natural—in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation.[1][1]
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes
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Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context is a 6-book series first released in 1641 with contributions by René Descartes, Michael Moriarty, and Çiğdem Dürüşken.
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The Philosophical Writings of Descartes is a 1-book series first released in 1641 with contributions by René Descartes, John Cottingham, and 2 others.
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The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Chicago Series is a 4-book series first released in 1529 with contributions by Louise Labé, Deborah Lesko Baker, and 8 others.