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    Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth
    Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth
    Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth
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    Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth

    Written by René Descartes

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    The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natural sciences could evolve. With this work, the idea of skepticism was revived from the ancients such as Sextus Empiricus and modified to account for a truth that Descartes 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.(Summary by Wikipedia)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth
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    René Descartes

    René Descartes, known as the Father of Modern Philosophy and inventor of Cartesian coordinates, was a seventeenth century French philosopher, mathematician, and writer. Descartes made significant contributions to the fields of philosophy and mathematics, and was a proponent of rationalism, believing strongly in fact and deductive reasoning. Working in both French and Latin, he wrote many mathematical and philosophical works including The World, Discourse on a Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Passions of the Soul. He is perhaps best known for originating the statement “I think, therefore I am.”

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