René Descartes, Specimina philosophiae. Introduction and Critical Edition

The Specimina philosophiae (Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1644) are preceded by a notice in which Descartes authorizes the text as a faithful translation of his Discours and Essais, and announces that he has made some changes in the original content. This raises questions about the nature, extent and background of these authorial interventions-questions that are all the more important because until well into the 19th century, the Latin version reached a far larger audience than the French text. Nonetheless, the differences between both texts had never been researched systematically. Corinna Vermeulen's... Mehr ...