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A Discourse on Method
- Meditations on the First Philosophy: Principles of Philosophy
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy
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- Andrew
- 22-10-10
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- Juan Malo
- 22-06-18
Descartes at his best
Excellently performed. Includes the Discourse on Method, the Meditations on First Philosophy, a Letter to Princess Elizabeth, and the Principles of Philosophy in toto. A great value for three of Descartes most important works. The translation is older, like most of Audible books to keep the price reasonable and is very readable, clear and distinct. Highly recommended!
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- Vinicius Moreira
- 14-05-11
Dense historic document
I will purchase the book. The language is difficult which complicates concentration and comprehension throughout.
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- SunshineAndRain
- 20-05-12
A classic, old syntax and all
What did you like best about A Discourse on Method? What did you like least?
This is the real deal, Descartes' "I think therefore I am" masterpiece. Be forewarned it contains old fashioned syntax and an even more old fashioned view of the world. If you want to listen to this seminal philosophical work, it's all here.
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- BK Stubbs
- 15-03-10
Great book but hard to "audiobook" it
Even though the narrator does a good job, it can be taxing to listen to. Since I have read the book I was hoping I might be able to grasp the audiobook, but it is still difficult.
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- hekmat
- 13-06-17
Good reflection on metaphysics
a unique philosophy of Descartes. starting point for someone to reflect upon God existence and the world.
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- Gary
- 21-06-17
Great writer, and shows why philosophy is fun
Descartes is a good writer, surprisingly good. This compilation of his most important philosophical works gives a nice redundancy to his body of work and most of Descartes' ideas get repeated in such a way that the listener will have no problem understanding most of his major points.
One should never rely on other authors' summaries of a original philosophical works especially when they are from non-philosophical books, because they seem to always highlight the wrong points in order to make their points while ignoring the real worth of the thinker.
There is no doubt that modern philosophy starts with Descartes. The process becomes the focus not the event itself. Our truths are no longing waiting to be discovered with an ontological rationality derived from a set of principals based on the hypothesized order of the universe, but a process awaiting to be invented through a disentangling of the subjective from the objective world. (Human's no longer discover truth they invent it).
There is another really interesting philosophy of science point that is within these readings. It is our understanding that closes the ontological difference between the subject/object, the word/thing, the Noumenal/Phenomenal. His example involved wax and it's shape, but in the interest of expediency I'll just say that gravity is an intuition. It is our understanding that closes the gap because one will never see the gravity. We can only understand it. Descartes gets that point, and that is one of the reasons why he is very important today.
Overall, Descartes is a great thinker and a very good writer. I would recommend Spinoza's Ethics after reading this one. Spinoza respects Descartes but he'll try to refute him by using the same premises. It doesn't matter which one is correct (to me). The most interesting part is how they get at their conclusions. Philosophy is fun and this kind of books show why.
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- Hassan Kimani
- 19-06-16
Most Beautiful Explication on Philosophy
Well done.
Well authored and beautifully performed.
To think that he thought of the content in the 17th century is amazing.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-02-21
Fix formatting of audiobooks
Especially for a book that consists of multiple texts like this one. Audible should guarantee that every release is formatted in a standard manner. The audiobook divides the texts correctly but there is no way to tell which part of which book you will listen to. All that is provided are numbered chapters as if it was a single book whose chapters have no titles.
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- Domingo Bernardo
- 11-01-21
incredibly interesting and insightful
I am not a student of psychology or philosophy sociology or any of the sciences to deal with people I am in fact the physicist and an engineer
this was the first exposure I've had to advance philosophy and I must say that the book was incredibly interesting although a bit tough to understand this is the kind of thing you have to read a few times before you get it
it's amazing to me that in the 1600s and individual could have this much insight things that would go on to be shown in quantum physics and in other fields
naturally again because this is from the 1600s there are some things that sound absolutely outrageous to us but if we place ourselves in the moment if we place ourselves in the 17th century then the writing of some of these things certainly doesn't seem ridiculous
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- Pedro Manuel
- 16-03-21
Outdated and Rumbly
The voice acting is slow and tedious, the content itself was written in a age of zealotry and it shows heavily, furthermore it often spends so much time in analogies, that the listener easily forgets what the topic originally was.
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- Dale Mills
- 17-03-18
The narrator reads too fast !
Works of philosophy have to be read much slower than works of fiction. I listen to both, and it seems that the reader thinks that this is a work of fiction or an autobiography. So it was a real struggle to follow his reading of the material. Slowing it down using the audible gadget doesn't really work as then he sounds drunk !