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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 08 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by James Adams. |
| Summary |
By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy. With the celebrated words "I think therefore I am," his compelling argument swept aside ancient and medieval traditions. He deduced that human beings consist of minds and bodies; that these are totally distinct "substances"; that God exists and that He ensures we can trust the evidence of our senses. Ushering in the "scientific revolution" of Galileo and Newton, his ideas have set the agenda for debate ever since. His philosophical methods and investigation changed the course of Western philosophy and led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory, and ethics. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Philosophy, French -- 17th century.
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800.
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Science -- Methodology -- Early works to 1800.
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Methodology -- Early works to 1800.
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Veitch, John, 1829-1894.
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Adams, James. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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Meditations on first philosophy.
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Principles of philosophy.
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| ISBN |
9781982476588 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982476583 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10026936 |
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