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1、Descartes‘Excellent’TheTimesEducationalSupplement‘Hisbiographicaldigestisassuccinctashisphilosophicalanalysisisthorough.’TheSundayTimesDescarteshasoftenbeencalledthe‘fatherofmodernphilosophy’.Hisattemptstofindfoundationsforknowledge,andtoreconciletheexistenceofthesoul
2、withtheemergingscienceofhistime,areamongthemostinfluentialandwidelystudiedinthehistoryofphilosophy.ThisisaclassicandchallengingintroductiontoDescartesbyoneofthemostdistinguishedmodernphilosophers.BernardWilliamsnotonlyanalysesDescartes’sprojectoffoundingknowledgeoncer
3、tainty,butuncoversthephilosophicalmotivesforhissearch.Withacuteinsight,hedemonstrateshowDescartes’sMeditationsarenotmerelyadescriptionbuttheveryenactmentofphilosophicalthoughtanddiscovery.WilliamscoversallofthekeyareasofDes-cartes’sthought,includingGod,thewill,thepos
4、sibilityofknow-ledge,andthemindanditsplaceinnature.Healsomakessomeprofoundcontributionstothetheoryofknowledge,metaphysicsandphilosophygenerally,makingDescartesessentialreadingforanystudentofphilosophy.ThisreissueincludesanewforewordbyJohnCottingham,Uni-versityofReadi
5、ng.‘BernardWilliamsisarguablythegreatestphilosopherofhisera.’TheGuardian‘Oneofthemostbrilliantfiguresofhisgeneration.’GlasgowHeraldBernardWilliamsdiedin2003.HetaughtattheUniversitiesofOxfordandCalifornia,Berkeleyandwasoneoftheleadingphilo-sophersofhisgeneration.Hewrot
6、emanyinfluentialbooksinclud-ingProblemsoftheSelfandEthicsandtheLimitsofPhilosophy.HislastworkwasTruthandTruthfulness(2002).Descartes:TheProjectofPureEnquiryBernardWilliamsFirstpublishedbyPenguinin1978Thiseditionfirstpublished2005byRoutledge2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingd
7、on,OxfordshireOX144RNSimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanadabyRoutledge270MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroupThiseditionpublishedintheTaylor&Francise-Library,2005.“TopurchaseyourowncopyofthisoranyofTaylor&FrancisorRoutledge’scol
8、lectionofthousandsofeBookspleasegotowww.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.”©BernardWilliams1978©ForewordJohnCottingham2005Allrightsreserved.No