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alternative_title: Discours de la méthode. English
contributor:
  translator:
    agent_name: Veitch, John
    birthdate: 1829
    deathdate: 1894
    gutenberg_agent_id: '1479'
    url: http://www.gutenberg.org/2009/agents/1479
    wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Veitch
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creator:
  author:
    agent_name: Descartes, René
    alias: Descartes, Rene
    birthdate: 1596
    deathdate: 1650
    gutenberg_agent_id: '44'
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description: "The Discourse on the Method (French: Discours de la méthode) is a philosophical\
  \ and autobiographical treatise published by René 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 méthode pour bien conduire sa raison,\
  \ et chercher la vérité 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. (The similar statement\
  \ in Latin, Cogito ergo sum, is found in Part I, §7 of Principles of Philosophy.)\n\
  The Discourse on the Method is one of the most influential works in the history\
  \ of modern philosophy, and important to the development of natural sciences. In\
  \ this work, Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism, which had previously been\
  \ studied by Sextus Empiricus, Al-Ghazali and Michel de Montaigne. Descartes modified\
  \ it to account for a truth he found to be incontrovertible. Descartes started his\
  \ line of reasoning by doubting everything, so as to assess the world from a fresh\
  \ perspective, clear of any preconceived notions.\nThe book was originally published\
  \ in Leiden in the Netherlands. Later, it was translated into Latin and published\
  \ in 1656 in Amsterdam. The book was intended as an introduction to three works\
  \ Dioptrique, Météores and Géométrie. La Géométrie contains Descartes' first introduction\
  \ of the Cartesian coordinate system. That the text was written and published in\
  \ French rather than Latin, which was the language in which philosophical and scientific\
  \ texts were most frequently written and published (as were most of Descartes' other\
  \ works), is worth noting.\nTogether with Meditations on First Philosophy (Meditationes\
  \ de Prima Philosophia), Principles of Philosophy (Principia philosophiae) and Rules\
  \ for the Direction of the Mind (Regulae ad directionem ingenii), it forms the base\
  \ of the epistemology known as Cartesianism.\n From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)."
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gutenberg_bookshelf:
- Philosophy
- Harvard Classics
gutenberg_issued: '1993-03-01'
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language: en
publisher: Project Gutenberg
rights: Public domain in the USA.
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title: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth
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