Meditations & Other Metaphysical Writing

The author was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In this book he developed a language of subjectivity that has lasted and he also took his first steps towards the view that would eventually be expressed in epigram Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am).|The author was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In this book he developed a language of subjectivity that has lasted and he also took his first steps towards the v...|Rene Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher and mathematician is generally regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. Desmond Clarke is professor of philosophy at Unviersity College Cork.