René Descartes

René Descartes

René Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine (now Desca on March 31st, 1596 and passed away at the age of 53 on February 11th, 1650.

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René Descartes Stats: The highest rated book by René Descartes on Book Notification is Meditations on First Philosophy, a Non-Fiction book. The second-highest rated book is The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence, a Collection .

The most read book by René Descartes on Book Notification is Meditations on First Philosophy, a Non-Fiction book. The second most read book is Discourse on Method and Related Writings, a Collection.

Below is a complete list of René Descartes books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Collections in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Discourse on Method and Related Writings
1637
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2
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
1641
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3
4
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume I
1911
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4
3
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Volume II
1911
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5
Essential Works of Descartes
1961
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6
The Essential Descartes
1969
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7
6
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence
1991
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8
Philosophical Works
2009
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9
Meditations & Other Writings
2011
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10
Selected Works of Rene Descartes
2011
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11
The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings
2015
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12
The Works of Rene Descartes
2019
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Rules for the Direction of the Mind
1619
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2
The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition (With: Marcia L. Latham, David Eugene Smith)
1637
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3
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
1973
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4
Descartes
2006
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5
A Discourse On The Method Of Rightly Conducting The Reason And Seeking Truth In The Sciences
2010
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6
Outline of a New System of Logic: With a Critical Examination of Dr. Whately's Elements of Logic. (With: George Bentham, Rene Minos)
2016
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7
The Ego and the Material World
2017
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8
The Philosophy Of Descartes: In Extracts From His Writing
2018
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9
Discourse
2019
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10
Meditations: A New Conception
2020
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11
8
Meditations on First Philosophy
2021
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12
Discourse on Method:
2022
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13
The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes
2023
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14
Abstract of Music
2023
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15
Treatise on Mechanics
2023
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16
Treatise on Man
2023
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17
Six Metaphysical Meditations
2023
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18
The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton (With: Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei)
2023
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List of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson, Frisbee Sheffield)
-380
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2
Theaetetus/Sophist (By: Harold North Fowler, Francis Macdonald Cornford)
-370
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3
Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
-350
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4
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
-350
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5
Eudemian Ethics (By: Brad Inwood, Raphael Woolf)
-322
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6
On Moral Ends (By: Julia Annas, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Raphael Woolf)
-45
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7
Outlines of Scepticism (By: Jonathan Barnes, Julia Annas, Sextus Empiricus)
200
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8
On the Trinity (By: Augustine of Hippo, Gareth B. Matthews, Stephen McKenna)
416
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9
Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic (By: Giordano Bruno, Richard J. Blackwell, Alfonso Ingegno, Robert De Lucca)
1583
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10
Francis Bacon: The New Organon (By: Lisa Jardine, Francis Bacon, Michael Silverthorne)
1620
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11
Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (By: John Cottingham)
1641
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12
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking (By: Pierre Nicole, Antoine Arnauld, Jill Vance Buroker)
1662
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13
Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy (By: Margaret Cavendish, Eileen O'Neill)
1668
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14
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Gebhardt Edition (By: Baruch Spinoza, Brad S. Gregory, Samuel Shirley, Maarten van Buuren)
1670
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15
The Search after Truth (By: Nicolas Malebranche, Thomas M. Lennon)
1675
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16
Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order (By: Baruch Spinoza, Michael Silverthorne, Matthew Kisner)
1677
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17
Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (By: David Scott, Nicholas Jolley, Nicolas Malebranche)
1688
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18
Locke on Toleration (By: Richard Vernon)
1689
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19
Berkeley: Philosophical Writings (By: George Berkeley, Desmond M. Clarke)
1709
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20
Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (By: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lawrence E. Klein)
1711
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21
A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill (By: Ralph Cudworth, Sarah Hutton)
1731
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22
Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (By: Stephen Buckle)
1748
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23
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (By: Adam Smith)
1759
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24
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (By: Immanuel Kant, Robert B. Louden, Manfred Kühn)
1785
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25
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (By: Immanuel Kant, Jens Timmermann, Mary J. Gregor, Christine M. Korsgaard)
1785
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26
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (By: Immanuel Kant, Michael Friedman)
1786
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27
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (By: Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor, Andrews Reath)
1788
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28
Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (By: Allen Wood, Garrett Green)
1792
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29
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (By: Immanuel Kant)
1793
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30
Novalis: Fichte Studies (By: Novalis, Jane Kneller)
1796
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31
Foundations of Natural Right (By: Frederick Neuhouser, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Michael Baur)
1797
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32
The Metaphysics of Morals (By: Immanuel Kant, Lara Denis, Mary J. Gregor)
1797
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33
The System of Ethics (By: Daniel Breazeale, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Guenter Zöller)
1798
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34
Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Richard E. Crouter)
1799
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35
Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention (By: Stephen Lord)
1825
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36
On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings (By: Heinrich Heine, Terry P. Pinkard, Howard Pollack-Milgate)
1835
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37
On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species (By: Wilhelm von Humboldt, Peter Heath, Michael Losonsky)
1836
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38
Fear and Trembling (By: Søren Kierkegaard, Sylvia Walsh, C. Stephen Evans)
1843
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39
Untimely Meditations (By: Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale)
1876
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40
Daybreak (By: Brian Leiter, Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark)
1881
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41
The Gay Science (By: Bernard Williams, Friedrich Nietzsche, Josefine Nauckhoff)
1882
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42
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
1883
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43
Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (By: Friedrich Nietzsche, Judith Norman, Rolf-Peter Horstmann)
1886
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44
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (By: Allison P. Coudert, Anne Conway, Taylor Corse)
1982
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45
Orations on Philosophy and Education (By: Philipp Melanchthon, Christine F. Salazar, Sachiko Kusukawa)
1989
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46
Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (By: Thomas Hobbes, Vere C. Chappell, John Bramhall)
1995
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47
La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings (By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Ann Thomson)
1996
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48
A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (By: Robert Boyle, Michael Hunter, Edward B. Davis)
1996
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49
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings (By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Moses Mendelssohn)
1997
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50
The World and Other Writings (With: Stephen Gaukroger)
1998
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51
Herder: Philosophical Writings (By: Johann Gottfried Herder, Michael N. Forster)
1998
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52
Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Andrew Bowie)
1998
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53
The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings ( By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
1999
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54
Disputed Questions on the Virtues (By: Thomas Aquinas, E.M. Atkins, Thomas Williams)
1999
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55
Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings (By: Voltaire )
2000
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56
Philosophical & Theological Writings (By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
2001
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57
Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings (By: Friedrich Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman)
2001
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58
Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Louise Adey Huish, Robert B. Louden)
2002
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59
Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (By: J.M. Bernstein)
2002
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60
Writings from the Early Notebooks ( By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
2003
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61
Writings from the Late Notebooks ( By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
2003
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62
Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings (By: Isaac Newton, Andrew Janiak)
2004
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63
Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (By: Immanuel Kant, Gary Hatfield)
2004
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64
Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (By: Karl P. Ameriks, James Hebbeler)
2005
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65
Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (By: Muhammad Ali Khalidi)
2005
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66
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (By: Richard Bett)
2005
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67
Summa Theologiae / Questions on God (By: Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas, Brian Leftow)
2006
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68
Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings (By: Peter King)
2006
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69
Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings (By: Charles Harry Manekin)
2007
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70
Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings (By: David Hume)
2007
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71
Greek and Roman Aesthetics (By: Oleg V. Bychkov, Anne Sheppard)
2010
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72
Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings (By: Paul Guyer, Patrick Frierson)
2011
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René Descartes

René Descartes was born on March 31st, 1596. René passed away February 11th, 1650 at 53 years old. René Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine (now Desca.

René Descartes is probably best known for their Non-Fiction Books. They currently have 18 Non-Fiction books available. The first was released in 1619 with the book Rules for the Direction of the Mind. The most recently released was The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton which was released in 2023.

René Descartes also wrote the Collections series which has 12 books including Discourse on Method and Related Writings and Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings.

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René Descartes: F.A.Q

When was René Descartes Born?

René Descartes was born on March 31st, 1596.

When did René Descartes die?

René Descartes died on February 11th, 1650 at 53 years old.

Where was René Descartes Born?

René Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine (now Desca, .

What was the first book René Descartes wrote?

The first book written by René Descartes was Rules for the Direction of the Mind, published in 1619.

What was the most recent book René Descartes wrote?

Their most recently released work was The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton on August 31st, 2023.

How many books has René Descartes written?

René Descartes has written 31 books. 1 book in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Series, 18 books in the Non-Fiction Books, 12 books in the Collections.

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