René Descartes: Abhandlung über die Methode, richtig zu denken und Wahrheit in den Wissenschaften zu suchenErstdruck (anonym) unter dem Titel »Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences«...

One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty-even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In his Meditations of 1641, and in the Objections and...

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...