by René Descartes, Leonel Ribeiro dos Santos · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722319553
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«Princípios da Filosofia» is the philosophical work by René Descartes, with a study by Leonel Ribeiro dos Santos, in paperback (170 pages, Editorial Presença).
Translated from Latin by Leonel Ribeiro dos Santos, the work offers a synthesis of Descartes's system. The edition includes an introduction that situates the text in its historical and philosophical context, and a commentary that organizes the main themes of Cartesian philosophy.
The Portuguese edition was published in 1995; the translator, Leonel Ribeiro dos Santos, was a professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Letters in Lisbon.
Suitable for philosophy students and readers interested in modern thought who want a commented edition of the Cartesian system.
René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, logician, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science during the Renaissance era. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry.
