Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the SciencesRené Descartes
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
René Descartes
Essays
Book language: English
53 pages
René Descartes's Discourse on the Method is a philosophical essay that presents a rational method for seeking truth in the sciences. It describes his approach of systematic doubt and clear reasoning, and reflects on the foundations of knowledge. Its readable style and historical importance make it a worthwhile listen for anyone interested in philosophy.
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Opening of the book
DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by René Descartes
Contents PREFATORY NOTE PART I PART II PART III PART IV PART V PART VI
PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR
If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals which he has deduced from this Method; in the fourth, the reasonings by which he establishes the existence of
God and of the Human Soul, which are the foundations of his
Metaphysic; in the fifth, the order of the Physical questions which he has investigated, and, in particular, the explication of the motion of the heart and of some other difficulties pertaining to Medicine, as also the difference between the soul of man and that of the brutes; and, in the last, what the Author believes to be required in order to greater advancement in the investigation of Nature than has yet been made, with the reasons that have induced him to write.
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