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	Discourse on Method - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		The Discourse on Method is a philosophical and mathematical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637.
		Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason in the Search for Truth in the Sciences (French title: Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences).
		The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation "cogito ergo sum", "I think, therefore I am." In addition, it contains Descartes' first introduction of the Cartesian coordinate system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Discourse_on_Method (613 words)

	Descartes, René. 1909–14. Discourse on Method. Vol. 34, Part 1. The Harvard Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Eloquence has incomparable force and beauty; Poesy has its ravishing graces and delights; in the Mathematics there are many refined discoveries eminently suited to gratify the inquisitive.
		Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences
		This seminal work of the seventeenth-century philosopher would sweep away the accepted truths of the past to create the foundation of modern thought.
	www.bartleby.com /34/1 (119 words)

	Discourse on Method (Descartes)
		My present design, then, is not to teach the method which each ought to follow for the right conduct of his reason, but solely to describe the way in which I have endeavored to conduct my own.
		By these considerations I was induced to seek some other method which would comprise the advantages of the three and be exempt from their defects.
		Now, in conclusion, the method which teaches adherence to the true order, and an exact enumeration of all the conditions of the thing.sought includes all that gives certitude to the rules of arithmetic.
	academics.triton.edu /uc/files/discmeth.html (3941 words)

	René Descartes Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ NaturalResearch.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Cogito ergo sum, method of doubt, Cartesian coordinate system, Cartesian dualism, ontological argument for God's existence; regarded as the father of Modern philosophy
		To achieve this, he employs a method called methodological skepticism: he doubts any idea that can be doubted.
		Discourse On the Method – at Project Gutenberg
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Ren%c3%a9_Descartes (1892 words)

	René Descartes: Discourse on Method (e-text) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		For the method which teaches one to follow the true order and to count exactly all the relevant details in what one is looking for contains everything which gives certainty to the rules of arithmetic.
		This method was able from then on to relieve me of all the regrets and remorse which usually upset the consciences of those weak and wavering minds which permit themselves to work unevenly with things which they accept as good but which they later judge to be bad.
		And I believe that this is the principal secret of those philosophers who have been able in earlier times to escape from the demands of empire and fortune and who, despite pains and poverty, could rival their gods in happiness.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/descartes/descartes1.htm (7722 words)

	Descartes: Discourse on Method
		I thought that some other method [beside that of logic, algebra, and geometry] must be found to combine the advantages of these three and to escape their faults.
		The first rule was never to accept anything as true unless I recognized it to be evidently such: that is, carefully to avoid precipitation and prejudgment, and to include nothing in my conclusions unless it presented itself so clearly and distinctly to my mind that there was no occasion to doubt it.
		What pleased me most about this method was that it enabled me to reason in all things, if not perfectly, at least as well as was in my power.
	www.thenagain.info /Classes/Sources/Descartes.html (1457 words)

	Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking for Truth in the Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		And in the first there will be found various considerations respecting the sciences; in the second the principal rules regarding the Method which the author has sought out; while in the third are some of the rules of morality which he has derived from this Method.
		Thus my design is not here to teach the Method which everyone should follow in order to promote the good conduct of his Reason, but only to show in what manner I have endeavoured to conduct my own.
		This made me feel that some other Method must be found, which, comprising the advantages of the three, is yet exempt from their faults.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/descarte.htm (4564 words)

	Discourse on Method and Meditations
		In Discourse on Method, he formulated a scientific approach comprising four principles: to accept only what reason recognizes as "clear and distinct"; to analyze complex ideas by dividing them into smaller elements; to reconstruct the ideas; and to make accurate, complete enumerations of the data.
		In Meditations, he proceeds according to this method, exploring the mind/body distinction, the nature of truth and error, the existence of God, and the essence of material things.
		In his proposal of the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis, the author sets the stage for the...
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	Section 4: René Descartes: Discourse on Method, 1637 /Shaping of the Modern World/Brooklyn College
		Therefore Descartes proposes a method of thought incorporating the rigor of mathematics but based on intuitive truths about what is real, basic knowledge which could not be wrong (like the axioms of geometry).
		He calls into question everything that he thinks he has learned through his senses but rests his whole system on the one truth that he cannot doubt, namely, the reality of his own mind and the radical difference between the mental and the physical aspects of the world.
		So I thought that I had to look for some other method which, having the advantages of these three, would be free of their defects.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /history/virtual/reading/core4-04r05.htm (1453 words)

	SparkNotes: Discourse on Method: Context
		His first publication, in 1636, was the Discourse on the Method along with three scientific essays, one on optics, one on meteorology, and one on geometry.
		The Discourse itself is meant to serve as a preface for these three essays, but it has since far surpassed them in reputation.
		The Discourse is intended to introduce the scientific method that Descartes has invented and to explain how his views came about and why he has been so hesitant to publish them, while the essays are meant to serve as evidence of the fruits of his labor.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/discoursemethod/context.html (447 words)

	Part III. Descartes, René. 1909-14. Discourse on Method. The Harvard Classics
		In fine, to conclude this code of Morals, I thought of reviewing the different occupations of men in this life, with the view of making choice of the best.
		These nine years passed away, however, before I had come to any determinate judgment respecting the difficulties which form matter of dispute among the learned, or had commenced to seek the principles of any Philosophy more certain than the vulgar.
		The Discourse on Method was originally published along with the Dioptrics, the Meteorics, and the Geometry.—Tr.
	www.bartleby.com /34/1/3.html (385 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Discourse on Method (Everyman S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Descartes 'Discourse on Method' is a fascinating text, combining the newly-invented form of essay (Descartes was familiar with the Essays of Montaigne) with the same kind of autobiographical impulse that underpins Augustine's Confessions.
		Descartes was a mathematician at heart, and perhaps had a carry-over of Pythagorean mystical attachment to mathematics, for his sense of reason led him to impute an absolute quality to mathematics; this has major implications for metaphysics and epistemology.
		Descartes method was a continuation in many ways of the ideas of Plato, Aristotle and the medieval thinkers, for they all tended toward thinking in absolute, universal terms in some degree.
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	René Descartes [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The two most widely known of Descartes' philosophical ideas are those of a method of hyperbolic doubt, and the argument that, though he may doubt, he cannot doubt that he exists.
		Although Descartes' method had its advocates, it was also criticized by his contemporaries, such as the mathematician Pierre de Fermat, and ultimately dismissed.
		In his Discourse on the Method, Descartes summarizes his line of reasoning in the famous phrase, 'I think, therefore I am' (or in Latin, 'cogito ergo sum').
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/d/descarte.htm (19639 words)

	Descartes' Discourse on Method (1870)
		It is that Idealism which declares the ultimate fact of all knowledge to be consciousness, or, in other words, a mental phænomenon; and therefore affirms the highest of all certainties, and indeed the only absolute certainty, to be the existence of mind.
		But the "Discourse" shows us another, and apparently very different, path, which leads, quite as definitely, to that correlation of all the phænomena of the universe with matter and motion, which lies at the heart of modern physical thought, and which most people call Materialism.
		After giving a full account of it in the "Discourse," and [182] erroneously ascribing the motion of the blood, not to the contraction of the walls of the heart, but to the heat which he supposes to be generated there, he adds:–
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	Study Guide for Descartes' Discourse on Method
		The Discourse on Method, published in 1637, was Descartes' first publication (his first major work, Le Monde, was suppressed after Descartes learned of Galileo's condemnation for his writings).
		He first describes how far he was able to proceed by strict adherence to the Method he has presented in Part II of the Discourse, and then proceeds to describe the movement of the heart and blood as an illustration of what one can achieve through observation when a priori reasoning fails us.
		Finally, he appends some remarks about the nature of human beings; the difference between humans on the one hand and animals and machines on the other; and the realtionship between the soul (or mind) and the body.
	www.public.coe.edu /~pmccormi/phl295/study_guides/discourse.html (461 words)

	Discourse on Method at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation "cogito ergo sum".
		In addition, it contains Descartes' first introduction of the Cartesian coordinate system.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Discourse on Method (Classics S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty.
		Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy and physiology, Descartes developed the hypothetical method that characterizes modern science, and this soon came to replace the traditional techniques derived from Aristotle.
		The project of pure enquiry is a bit boring, though the questions it raises concerning consciousness have been a major addition to the discourse of philosophy of mind.
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	Discourse on Method - By: Rene Descartes - Christianbook.com
		Discourse on Method - By: Rene Descartes - Christianbook.com
		He deduced that human beings consist of minds and bodies; that these are totally distinct "substances"; that God exists and that He ensures we can trust the evidence of our senses.
		Ushering in the "scientific revolution" of Galileo and Newton, Descartes' ideas swept aside ancient and medieval traditions of philosophical methods and investigation.
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	Discourse on Method
		But the first outstanding achievement in combining laws was that of Descartes himself when he combined the methods of algebra and geometry in the new field of analytic geometry.
		method by which to arrive at the knowledge of whatever lay within the compass of my powers.
		discourse; for these are so metaphysical, and so uncommon, as not, perhaps, to be acceptable to every one.
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	Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth - Project Gutenberg
		Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth - Project Gutenberg
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		Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
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	DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts:
		the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered,
		certain of the rules of Morals which he has deduced from this Method;
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	Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		What degree of certainty does our knowledge enjoy?
		In these two powerful works, Descartes, the seventeenth-century philosopher considered to be the father of modern philosophy, outlines his philosophical method and then counters the skeptics of his time by insisting that certain knowledge can be had.
		He goes on to address the nature and extent of human knowledge, the distinction between mind and body, the existence of God, and the existence of external objects.
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