René Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy

…des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiae (1663; René Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy), the only one of his works to be published under his own name in his lifetime. An exposition of Descartes’s Principia Philosophiae (1644; Principles of Philosophy), it showed a profound understanding of Descartes’s system. Although Spinoza generally accepted Descartes’s physics,…