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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

Chapter 1: DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES
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The author recounts his intellectual development and presents a practical method for attaining certain knowledge, built on rigorous doubt and simple rules for clear and orderly reasoning. He explains how he derived a limited set of methodological precepts for analysis, deduction, and systematic enumeration, then applies them to ethics, metaphysics, and natural philosophy. He offers arguments for the existence of God and for a real distinction between mind and body, sketches mechanistic explanations of physical and biological phenomena, and proposes priorities and institutional aims to accelerate reliable scientific inquiry.

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Title: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

Author: René Descartes

Translator: John Veitch

Release date: March 1, 1993 [eBook #59]
Most recently updated: May 13, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Ilana and Greg Newby

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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