Meditations on First Philosophy

Oh Descartes, we have an interesting relationship, you and I. You are a necessary step in Philosophy classes, and yet I abhor you. So you get 3 stars.......more

René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is a book I picked up for two reasons. The first is that a friend had been reading and enjoying his work, the second is that I have developed an interest in philosophy due to my university units. I am currently undertaking one literature unit on the 'P......more

This is certainly a fundamental work for philosophy in terms of its epistemological and metaphysical implications, which can be simply summarised in that timeless proposition: "cogito ergo sum." Descartes can be seen as an explorer, navigating mathematics (having invented the Cartesian coordinate sy......more