Descartes in Latin

[interprete]

Hello,

I’ll be starting a philosophy course soon, and the first reading in the programme is Descartes’ Meditations. We have the texts in English but they were originally in Latin. I immediately thought, great, I can kill two birds with one stone and read them in Latin (we don’t have to read the whole work, just the most relevant Meditations). However, before deciding to embark on this arduous task, I’d like to check with you if Descartes’ [not sure how to use the apostrophe in English here] Latin is close enough to classical Latin, or if it will likely confuse me more than help me improve my Latin (I haven’t even started reading classical authors yet, so if Descartes uses a vastly different kind of Latin I guess it would be wiser to leave him for later).
Thanks!

 

[interprete]

To give you an idea, here is Meditation II, which is the first one we need to read:

Corpus Descartes

Thanks.

 

[Pacifica]

It seems close enough to classical Latin.

 

[Laurentius]

Since you're the one who's supposed to read this, shouldn't you also be the one to judge?
By the way I was looking at some editor who is publishing Latin books and they also have Descartes. I think maybe it only has the Latin text. Not sure if you'd find this interesting.

 

[interprete]

Since you're the one who's supposed to read this, shouldn't you also be the one to judge?
By the way I was looking at some editor who is publishing Latin books and they also have Descartes. I think maybe it only has the Latin text. Not sure if you'd find this interesting.

I wish I could, but I’m very far from the level of proficiency required to determine if something sounds like classical Latin or not.
Yes I’d be interested, it would force me to read it without resorting to the translation, once I’m done dissecting the text on a first reading of course.
Thanks!