Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
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- First published
- 1637
- Pages
- 40Digital editionReference edition
- Reading time
- About 50 minutes2 half-hour sittings
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- Not set
A little about the book
Descartes tells how dissatisfaction with what he had been taught led him to set out rules for examining his beliefs. The discussion joins methodological doubt to a more practical question about how someone can keep living while reconsidering what they know.
The personal narrative gives the short work a different pace from a formal treatise. Notice how the rules for inquiry and the provisional rules for conduct answer different problems.
Is it for you?
You’ll enjoy it if you like
- early modern philosophy
- arguments about certainty
- short works told through intellectual autobiography
Things You May Not Know About Discourse on the Method
- The work first appeared in French.
- It was published with scientific essays intended to show the method in use.
About this edition
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