Discurs del mètode
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
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- Escrita per l'autor
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- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
- Extensió:
- ~23.200 paraules · 110 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APADescartes. (n.d.). Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth [Discurs del mètode]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/descartes/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-of-seeking-truth
- MLADescartes. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth [Discurs del mètode]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/descartes/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-of-seeking-truth.
- ChicagoDescartes. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth [Discurs del mètode]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/descartes/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-of-seeking-truth.
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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.
curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of those of the present. Besides, fictitious narratives lead us to imagine the possibility of many events that are impossible; and even the most faithful histories, if they do not wholly misrepresent matters, or exaggerate their importance to render the account of them more worthy of perusal, omit, at least, almost always the meanest and least striking of the attendant circumstances; hence it happens that the remainder does not represent the truth, and that such as regulate their conduct by examples drawn from this source, are apt to fall into the extravagances of the knight-errants of romance, and to entertain projects that exceed their powers. I esteemed eloquence highly, and was in raptures with poesy; but I thought that both were gifts of nature rather than fruits of study. Those in whom the faculty of reason is predominant, and who most skillfully dispose their thoughts with a view to render them clear and intelligible, are always the best able to persuade others of the truth of what they lay down, though they should speak only in the language of Lower Brittany, and be wholly ignorant of the rules of rhetoric; and those whose minds are stored with the most agreeable fancies, and who can give expression to them with the greatest embellishment and harmony, are still the best poets, though unacquainted with the art of poetry. I was especially delighted with the mathematics, on account of the certitude and evidence of their reasonings; but I had not as yet a precise knowledge of their true use; and thinking that they but contributed to the advancement of the mechanical arts, I was astonished that foundations, so strong and solid, should have had no loftier superstructure reared on them.…