Discourse on Method For Conducting Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences Rene Descartes Books
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All six parts of Rene Descartes timeless treatise regarding the scientific method are presented in this edition complete.
Often referred to as simply the Discourse on the Method, this work is frequently cited as one of the most important to appear during the Enlightenment era. It discusses the best means through which those in search of knowledge can approach the world, and the practice of science, as a means of attaining true and definitive insight. The Discourse on Method is influential chiefly for its contribution to science, having inspired many famed scientists toward their own discoveries over the centuries.
Descartes instructs the reader to doubt everything, and to use this universal doubt as a starting point from which to approach a problem. In addition to matters of science, Descartes discusses his personal, religious beliefs. In addition to his Method, Descartes also explains certain social and personal beliefs such as obeying the laws and statutes of his country and prioritising self-advancement over the achievement of material wealth or fortune.
Famous for including the much-quoted phrase "Je pense, donc je suis" - "I think, therefore I am" - the Discourse on Method today stands as a crucial cornerstone of countless educational courses on philosophy.
Discourse on Method For Conducting Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences Rene Descartes Books
This book is highly theoretical and best suited forreading by an academic audience.Descartes
discusses the mechanics of knowledge acquisition
and the clarity of thought.
The author speaks of things that can be reasoned
well enough but tough to demonstrate empirically.
He recognizes the limitations of making too lofty goals
in favor of settling for less change in the order of
things and more stability. At points, he wonders about
God and the construct of a perfect being. Specifically,
he praises the miracle of creation.
Descartes provides a considerable discourse on the
mechanics of blood flow through the various heart
chambers and pathways of veins. This discussion
is no less fascinating than a standard lecture in a
medical school or advanced class in Anatomy/Physiology.
Overall, the book is very instructive although the
contents could require more than one reading to
appreciate fully. The book would be perfect for
students of the sciences and humanities everywhere.
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Discourse on Method For Conducting Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences Rene Descartes Books Reviews
Descartes set the foundation by which all problems could be answered accurately. If you don't agree, Descartes would say you we're doing it wrong
great book
Great book.
Bought this for my 15 year old daughter and she is really enjoying reading it - who knew?
It was well written and easy to understand. The points were clear, concise and to the point. The last chapter summarized the previous.
At first I wasn't going to read this one, but when I started to read Meditations on First Philosophy Descartes referred to this several times, so I decided to quickly read it. Instead of doing the smart thing and getting a better translation, I found and read this public domain one. In hind sight after reading the superior Hackett version translated by Cress, it would have been better to just wait for that one (or pay the small price).
As for the Discourse, it's pretty interesting, Descartes decides to throw way everything he's learned and approach everything as geometric proofs where he builds on top of what he can completely infer. At first he rejects all senses and perceptions because they could be an illusion, the only thing he knows is, "I think therefore I am" (or if you read the Cottingham version, 'I am thinking therefore I exist'). From this he bases everything. He later goes to present his own modified version of the ontological argument, basically he thinks of something more perfect than himself, since he knows there is something more perfect then this, then eventually the most perfect thing is God. I'm sure many theists will agree with him that perhaps God is the only other thing they know is true, but I'm not sure how the thought of a most perfect being is more apparent than everything he experiences around him. I realize that his could be in illusion, but the thought of a most perfect being is more concrete? If someone doesn't perceive of this most perfect being instead assumes that everything is partially flawed does god cease to exist?
Rene Descartes was one of the mathematician philosophers from the same era as Sir Isaac Newton when natural philosophy and the scientific method were developing into modern Western science. Many of today's cosmological discoveries and theoretical physics have their foundations in the Greek thinkers and the post Middle Ages Western theories and discoveries. Descartes needs to be given more recognition in the present day for his ideas which 20th and 21st Century cosmologists like Hawking have claimed as their own concepts, like changing the names vortex to .black hole, aether to dark matter. Descartes postulate space had fluid like properties. I have now seen a theoretical physicist postulating the same with no bow to Descartes. Descartes postulated that space was filled with vortexes and astronomers have now believe every galaxy has one at its center, but the name has been changed to Black Hole and Hawking claims that as his idea. He is a brilliant mind and deserves all the credit awarded to him, but why not mention Descartes when talking about arriving at what are being presented as new theories? All science is built upon that of the predecessors but I think Einstein is the only one the modern theoretical physicists acknowledge while pursuing the Noble Prize.
This book is highly theoretical and best suited for
reading by an academic audience.Descartes
discusses the mechanics of knowledge acquisition
and the clarity of thought.
The author speaks of things that can be reasoned
well enough but tough to demonstrate empirically.
He recognizes the limitations of making too lofty goals
in favor of settling for less change in the order of
things and more stability. At points, he wonders about
God and the construct of a perfect being. Specifically,
he praises the miracle of creation.
Descartes provides a considerable discourse on the
mechanics of blood flow through the various heart
chambers and pathways of veins. This discussion
is no less fascinating than a standard lecture in a
medical school or advanced class in Anatomy/Physiology.
Overall, the book is very instructive although the
contents could require more than one reading to
appreciate fully. The book would be perfect for
students of the sciences and humanities everywhere.
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