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How our minds and bodies are connected

The Independent Florida Alligator (blog) - Jan 24, 2012
With the realization that, "I think, therefore I am," Rene Descartes fueled a long tradition that effectively dissociated the mind from the body, the soul from the corpse and spurned our physicality as base and impure. Hundreds of years later, ...

Cultivating the Value of Ideas

Innovation Excellence (blog) - Jan 23, 2012
It is best summarized by Rene Descartes “I think therefore I am” maxim. Most business people subscribe to this approach, as it gives great weight to the power of the mind. The second approach is usually considered Eastern, with a strong bias towards ...

Inner workings

The Australian - Jan 20, 2012
IN 1637, philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes published his Discourses on Method, a book whose radical scepticism and mechanistic world view did as much as any other to shape the modern age. Among many arguments in its pages was a suggestion ...

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.

by: Rene Descartes
This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.
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The Ultimate Anthology of Philosophy

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This massive anthology of philosophy contains over 75 works by a dozen of the most know philosophers of all time. An active table of contents makes it easy to quickly to the work you want.

Authors and books include:
Aeschylus:
Agamemnon
Bound and Seven Against Thebes
The House of Atreus
Maidens and Other Plays

Aristotle:
The Athenian Constitution
The Categories
Ethics
The Poetics of Aristotle

Francis Bacon:
The Advancement of Learning.
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Meditations, Objections, and Replies

by: Rene Descartes, Roger Ariew, Donald A. Cress
Among the strengths of this edition are reliable, accessible translations, useful editorial materials, and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the Objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, and Descartes' Replies, in their entirety. 'The Letter Serving as a Reply to Gassendi' - in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies - conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange.
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Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings

by: René Descartes
Based on the new and much acclaimed two volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of those writings, including the Discourse and Meditations and substantial extracts from the Regulae, Optics, Principles, Objections and Replies, Comments on a Broadsheet, and Passions of the Soul.
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