Descartes and the First Cartesians

by Roger Ariew

Descartes and the First Cartesians adopts the perspective that we should not approach Rene Descartes as a solitary thinker, but as a philosopher who constructs a dialogue with his contemporaries, so as to engage them and elements of his society into his philosophical enterprise. Roger Ariew argues that an important aspect of this engagement concerns the endeavor to establish Cartesian philosophy in the Schools, that is, to replace Aristotle as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199563519
• ISBN13: 9780199563517
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"