Descartes: Discourse On Method and the Meditations

Two works from the father of modern philosophy. In Discourse on Method, he formulated a scientific approach comprising four principles, including to accept only what reason recognizes as "clear and distinct." In Meditations, he explores the mind/body distinction, the nature of truth and error, the existence of God, and the essence of material things.

• Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
• Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic (Dover Thrift Editions)
• Civilization and Its Discontents
• The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
• The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Penguin Classics)
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh (Hackett Classics)
• Phaedo (Oxford World's Classics)
• Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works (Oxford World's Classics)
• Rousseau's Political Writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On Social Contract (Norton Critical Editions)
• Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Signet Classics)