René Descartes: Principles of Philosophy
Subtitle: Translation with Explanatory Notes (Synthese Historical Library)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 31, 1982
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9789027714510
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; History Of Science; Philosophy Of The 16th And 17th Centuries; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophie; Philosophy / Modern; Science-Philosophy & Social Aspects
First sentence: Since we were born as children and made various judgments, {some good and some bad}, concerning perceptible1 things before we had the complete use of our reason, we are diverted from a knowledge of the truth by many prejudices;2 and it seems that we cannot be freed from these unless we attempt, once in our life, to doubt all those things in which we find even the slightest suspicion of uncertainty.