Discourse on the Method: A Foundational Text of Modern Philosophy - Hardcover

Descartes, Rene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1515433129 ISBN 13: 9781515433125

Publisher: SMK Books, 2018

Synopsis

The Discourse on the 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, and Searching for Truth in the Sciences. The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis", "I think, therefore I am".This is one of the most influential works in the history of modern science.

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René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist whose work helped establish the foundations of modern Western philosophy. Often associated with rationalism, methodical doubt, and the search for certainty, Descartes transformed philosophical inquiry by insisting that knowledge must be tested through reason rather than accepted merely through tradition or sensory experience. His famous formulation "I think, therefore I am" became one of the central statements in the history of philosophy and remains a defining point of entry into questions of selfhood, consciousness, knowledge, and reality.Descartes' influence extends well beyond philosophy. His mathematical work contributed to analytic geometry, and his broader intellectual project helped shape early modern science, metaphysics, epistemology, and debates over mind and body. Alongside Meditations on First Philosophy and Principles of Philosophy, Discourse on the Method remains one of his most widely read works, valued by students, scholars, and general readers as a clear and powerful introduction to the rationalist tradition and the emergence of modern thought.

Edition details

• Publisher: SMK Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1515433129
• ISBN 13: 9781515433125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 56