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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting one s Reason and SeekingTruth in the SciencesRen DescartesCopyright Jonathan Bennett 2017. All rights reserved[Brackets]enclose editorial explanations. Small dots enclose material that has been added, but can be read asthough it were part of the original text. Occasional bullets, and also indenting of passages that are not quotations,are meant as aids to grasping the structure of a sentence or a thought. Every four-point ellipsis .. indicates theomission of a brief passage that seems to present more difficulty than it is worth. Given this work s full title, youcan see that it is wrong to call it, for short, Discourse on Method with no the .First launched: June 2005 Last amended: November 2007 ContentsPart 11 Part 25 Part 311 Part 414 Part 518 Part 624 Discourse on the MethodRen DescartesPart 1If this Discourse seems too long to be read at a sitting you may divide it into six parts. In1you will find various considerationsregarding the sciences; in2the main rules of the Method that the author has sought; in3some of the moral rules he hasderived from this Method ; in4the arguments by which he proves the existence of God and the human soul, on which hismetaphysics is based; in5the order of the questions in physics that he has investigated, particularly the explanation of themovement of the heart and of some other problems in the medical sphere, and also the difference between our soul and t

Discourse on the Method René Descartes Part 1 If this discourse seems too long to be read at a sitting you may divide it into six parts. In 1 you will find various considerations regarding the sciences; in 2 the main rules of the method that the author has sought; in 3 some of the moral rules he has derived from this method; in 4 the arguments by which he proves the existence of …

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