Discurs del mètode (ed. 2)
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- APADescartes. (n.d.). Discurs del mètode (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason
- MLADescartes. "Discurs del mètode (ed. 2)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason.
- ChicagoDescartes. Discurs del mètode (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason.
De què tracta
El relat de com Descartes va decidir dubtar de tot el que havia après i reconstruir el coneixement des de l'única certesa que va resistir: penso, per tant soc.
Context i història
Publicat el 1637 a Leiden, anònimament i en francès — no en llatí, que era la llengua dels doctes: Descartes volia que el pogués llegir «fins i tot les dones i la gent sense estudis», va dir. Era el pròleg de tres assaigs científics (òptica, meteors, geometria), però el pròleg s'ha menjat el llibre. Escrit des d'Holanda, on Descartes vivia amb la prudència de qui havia vist què li havia passat a Galileu quatre anys abans. És la partida de naixement de la filosofia moderna: el jo que dubta com a fonament de tot.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
The Great DESCARTES (who may justly challenge the first place amongst the Philosophers of this Age) is the Author of this Discourse; which in the Originall was so well known, That it could be no mans but his own, that his Name was not affix'd to it: I need say no more either of Him or It; He is best made known by Himself, and his Writings want nothing but thy reading to commend them. But as those who cannot compasse the Originals of _Titian_ and _Van-Dyke_, are glad to adorne their Cabinets with the Copies of them; So be pleased favourably to receive his Picture from my hand, copied after his own Designe: You may therein observe the lines of a well form'd Minde, The hightnings of Truth, The sweetnings and shadowings of Probabilities, The falls and depths of Falshood; all which serve to perfect this Masterpiece. Now although my after-draught be rude and unpolished, and that perhaps I have touch'd it too boldly, The thoughts of so clear a Minde, being so extremely fine, That as the choisest words are too grosse, and fall short fully to expresse such sublime Notions; So it cannot be, but being transvested, it must necessarily lose very much of its native Lustre: Nay, although I am conscious (notwithstanding the care I have taken neither to wrong the Authours Sense, nor offend the Readers Ear) of many escapes which I have made; yet I so little doubt of being excused, That I am confident, my endeavour cannot but be gratefull to all Lovers of Learning; for whose benefit I have Englished, and to whom I addresse this Essay, which contains a Method, by the Rules whereof we may Shape our better part, Rectifie our Reason, Form our Manners and Square our Actions, Adorn our Mindes, and…