作者	【法】笛卡尔,【荷】斯宾诺莎
标签	哲学,西方哲学
出版社	中央编译出版社
作者介绍	RENE DESCARTES （1596-1650）， a French philosopher and writer who has been called the "Father of Modern Philosophy，" and in particular， his Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement "Cogito ergo sum" （I think， therefore I am; or I do think， therefore I do exist）. BARUCH DE SPINOZA （1632，-1677） was a Dutch philosopher. By laying the groundwork for the i8th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism， he came to be considered one of the great rationalist's of the 17th-century philosophy Gilles Delouse names him "the prince of philosophers."

《第一哲学沉思录?伦理学(英文版)》收录了理性主义代表人物笛卡尔和斯宾诺莎两部著作。“我思，故我在。”西方近代哲学之父笛卡尔以这一经典命题表明了与前此的传统哲学决裂，阐扬天赋观念论和理性至上论。另一位理性主义代表人物斯宾诺莎确信只有象几何学一样，凭理性的能力从最初几个由直观获得的定义和公理推论出来的知识，才是最可靠的知识。