{"product_id":"meditations-and-other-metaphysical-writings-penguin-classics-9780140447019","title":"Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty—even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In his Meditations of 1641, and in the Objections and Replies that were included with the original publication, he set out to dismantle and then reconstruct the idea of the individual self and its existence. In doing so, Descartes developed a language of subjectivity that has lasted to this day, and he also took his first steps towards the view that would eventually be expressed in the epigram Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am), one of modern philosophy's most famous—and most fiercely contested—claims.   The first part of a two-volume edition of Descartes' works in Penguin Classics, the second of which is \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on Method \u0026amp; Related Writings\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Penguin Descartes\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading\u003ci\u003eMeditations on First Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003eLetter of Dedication to the Sorbonne\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Reader\u003cbr\u003eSummary of the Following Six Meditations\u003cbr\u003eMeditations\u003cbr\u003eObjections and Replies (Selections)\u003ci\u003eThe Principles of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003eLetter to Princess Elizabeth\u003cbr\u003ePart One: The Principles of Human Knowledge\u003ci\u003eDescartes' Correspondence: Selections, 1643-9Comments on a Certain Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003eNotes","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732376465751,"sku":"9780140447019","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140447019.jpg?v=1719996615","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/meditations-and-other-metaphysical-writings-penguin-classics-9780140447019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}