Discourse On The Method Of Rightly Conducting The Reason And Seeking Truth In The Sciences

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486115445
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse on Method and Meditations written by René Descartes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to be certain of anything? If so, how? The father of modern philosophy and the founder of rational method in philosophical thought, René Descartes (1596–1650) sought the answers to these questions and in doing so, addressed the most important of methods of thinking and understanding truth. In Discourse on Method, he applies a scientific approach to philosophy that comprises four principles: to accept only what reason recognizes as "clear and distinct"; to analyze complex ideas by dividing them into smaller elements; to reconstruct the ideas; and to make accurate and complete enumerations of the data. His Meditations proceed according to this method, exploring the mind/body distinction, the nature of truth and error, the existence of God, and the essence of material things.

Author : René Descartes
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872204225
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse on Method (Third Edition) written by René Descartes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03-13 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised from the 1979 First Edition and includes pages references to the critical edition for ease of comparison.

Author : René Descartes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rene Descartes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101160500
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse on Method and Related Writings written by Rene Descartes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is not enough to have a good mind; it is more important to use it well" René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, and this soon came to replace the traditional techniques derived from Aristotle. Many of Descartes’ most radical ideas—such as the disparity between our perceptions and the realities that cause them—have been highly influential in the development of modern philosophy. This edition sets the Discourse on Method in the wider context of Descartes’ work, with the Rules for Guiding One’s Intelligence in Searching for the Truth (1628), extracts from The World (1633) and selected letters from 1636-9. A companion volume, Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings, is also published in Penguin Classics.

Author : Rene Descartes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542373715
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rene Descartes written by Rene Descartes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rene DescartesDiscourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences by Rene DescartesThe Discourse on the Method (French: Discours de la m�thode) is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by Ren� Descartes in 1637. Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences (French title: Discours de la m�thode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la v�rit� dans les sciences). The Discourse on The Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis" ("I think, therefore I am"), which occurs in Part IV of the work.Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199540071
Total Pages : 161 pages
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Download or read book A Discourse on the Method written by René Descartes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the philosopher's most important work, one that proves the existence of the self and God, and explains the physical world.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585104930
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book Discourse on Method written by René Descartes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of Descartes' seminal discourse, with an original essay by Richard Kennington. This text is designed to provide the student with a close translation, notes, and a glossary of key terms, facilitating access to ideas as they originally were presented and helping to make the translator's work transparent. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Decartes' immediate audience. The Focus Philosophical Library publishes clear, faithful editions enabling access for modern students to the essential ideas and wisdom of the world’s greatest thinkers.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : René Descartes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences written by René Descartes and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: