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Title: Exactly what a serious student of Cartesian thought needs
Review: Contrary to what the previous reviewer claims, Heffernan's translation is one of the best available if the benchmark for one's choosing of a translation is that of faithfulness to the original text. Other translation available oversimplifies Descartes' sentence for the sake of elegance. But one should always remember that beauty in any philosophical text comes not from the words itself, but from the ordering and structure of the words and ideas (Descartes himself emphasised a similar point).True, Heffernan is committing comercial suicide by adhering so closely to the original text in order to produce a literal translation, but this translation is exactly what a serious student of Cartesian thought needs. Of course, such accuracy is (unfortunately for Heffernan) not required for most students of philosophy.
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