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Publication of Descartes' Principles of Philosophy
In 1644 Descartes published the Latin Principles of Philosophy in Amsterdam, a systematic exposition of his metaphysics and natural science that beca…
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- 1644Amsterdam · North HollandDescartes presented his philosophical system in four parts: Part One on knowledge and God, Parts Two and Three on the mechanical principles of the material world and the visible universe, and Part Four on the Earth and sensory phenomena. The book was intended to replace Aristotelian textbooks and became the core text for the spread of Cartesianism in Europe.
Sources
- Principia philosophiae — René Descartes (1644)
- René Descartes — Gary Hatfield https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/