A discourse on the method of correctly conducting one's reason and seeking truth in the sciences

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Title:

Author:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

ISBN:

9780192825148

Personal Author:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Uniform Title:

Discours de la méthode. English

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

lxxv, 84 p. ; 20 cm.

Series:

Oxford world's classics

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

The presentation of the project -- Intellectual autobiography -- Precepts in philosophy and ethics -- Metaphysics and epistemology -- Physics and physiology.

Subject Term:

Methodology.

Science -- Methodology.

Added Author:

Maclean, Ian, 1945-

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005019297.html

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'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.'Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography in the vernacular for a non-specialist readership, sweeps away all previous philosophical traditions, and sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous 'cogito ergo sum'), next deduces from it the existence and nature of God, and ends by offering a radical new account of the physical world and of human and animal nature.This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introductory essay which draws on Descartes's correspondence to examine his motivation and the impact of his great work on his contemporaries. Detailed notes explain his philosophical terminology and ideas.

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