A discourse on the method of correctly conducting one's reason and seeking truth in the sciences / Rene Descartes ; translated with an introduction and notes by Ian Maclean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Contributor:

Maclean, Ian, 1945-

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Standardized Title:

Discours de la méthode. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodology.

Science--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking the 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. - ;'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

Contents:

The presentation of the project

Intellectual autobiography

Precepts in philosophy and ethics

Metaphysics and epistemology

Physics and physiology.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-26873-2

9786612268731

0-19-151772-0

OCLC:

476257261