A Discourse on Method
Meditations on the First Philosophy: Principles of Philosophy

Descartes is a good writer, surprisingly good. This compilation of his most important philosophical works gives a nice redundancy to his body of work and most of Descartes' ideas get repeated in such a way that the listener will have no problem understanding most of his major points. One should never......more

Beautifully narrated presentation of Descartes’ seminal work. Though he was forced by his Culture to posit the existence of God and based a lot of his theory on that hypothesis, he did a lot to influence the development of Western Philosophy. This collection of his Discourse and Meditations is manda......more

It is surprising that he wants to prove the existence of God with triangles. For the most part, I did not understood many things listening to the book, but have respect for the high logic of the writer.......more

Decartes is seen as the father of modern philosophy and this book combining a good number of his treaties really shows why. His fluency in Mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology astronomy, biology and other fields is truly outstanding. I specifically loved the logical method through which he establi......more

Obviously a fundamental work of philosophy. Rather interesting read, not too easy, not too hard (compared to other works of philosophy). I like Decartes' more common-sense approach to rhetoric (as opposed to overly formalized). This was my first exploratory read, so many details I missed. However, w......more