John Veitch: Selections from the Principles of Philosophy of Rene Descartes

John Veitch (1829 - 1894), Scottish philosopher, poet, and historian of the Scottish border, was born at Peebles, and educated at Edinburgh University. In 1860 he was appointed to the chair of logic, metaphysics and rhetoric at St Andrews, and in 1864 to the corresponding chair at Glasgow. In philosophy an intuitionist, he dismissed the idealist arguments with some abruptness, and thereby lost much of the influence gained by the force of his personal character. John Veitch is one of the greatest "forgotten" names in philosophy, whose Selections from the Principles of Philosophy remains more than the English rendering of one of the greatest names in world philosophy.