Discourse on Method (Kennington Edition)

This Focus Philosophical Library edition includes a new translation of Descartes' seminal discourse, with an original essay by Richard Kennington. This text is designed to provide the student with a close translation, notes, and a glossary of key terms, facilitating access to ideas as they originally were presented and helping to make the translator's work transparent. 

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René Descartes
Translated by Richard Kennington; Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Pamela Kraus and Frank Hunt

2007 - 96 pp.
Imprint: Focus, Series: Focus Philosophical Library

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This Focus Philosophical Library edition includes a new translation of Descartes' seminal discourse, with an original essay by Richard Kennington. This text is designed to provide the student with a close translation, notes, and a glossary of key terms, facilitating access to ideas as they originally were presented and helping to make the translator's work transparent. 


About the Authors:

Richard Kennington (1921-1999) was a professor of philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University and The Catholic University of America. His teaching was centered largely on seventeenth-century thinkers, primarily Bacon and Descartes, but included also Hobbes, Leibniz, Locke, and Spinoza. He was a serious scholar of ancient and contemporary thinkers, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Heidegger, on whom he frequently lectured. A collection of his writings, On Modern Origins, traces the transition from a classical, largely speculative tradition in philosophy to the new meaning of nature and theory that characterizes modern philosophy and science.

Pamela Kraus teaches at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.

Frank Hunt teaches at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.