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A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason

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A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason

René Descartes

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Doubt everything, he decided, and see what survives. What survived became the most famous sentence in philosophy. Descartes's Discourse lays out his method in six parts: the rules for guiding reason, the provisional morality, the proof that thinking confirms existing, and the program for a new science. Presented in its early English translation of 1649. Start where modern thought started.

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  1. 1A Discourse OF A METHOD For the well guiding of REASON, And the Discovery of Truth In the SCIENCES.
  2. 2To the Understanding READER.
  3. 3A DISCOURSE OF A METHOD, For the wel-guiding of Reason; AND The discovery of Truth in the SCIENCES.
  4. 4PART. I.
  5. 5PART. II.
  6. 6PART. III.
  7. 7Part. IIII.
  8. 8PART. V.
  9. 9PART. VI.
  10. 10Transcriber’s Notes and Errata
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