Discours de la méthode (ed. 2)
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- APADescartes. (n.d.). Discours de la méthode (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason
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Wovon es handelt
Der Bericht, wie Descartes beschloss, an allem Gelernten zu zweifeln und das Wissen aus der einzigen Gewissheit neu aufzubauen, die standhielt: Ich denke, also bin ich.
Kontext und Geschichte
Erschienen 1637 in Leiden, anonym und auf Französisch — nicht auf Latein, der Sprache der Gelehrten: Descartes wollte, dass es, wie er sagte, selbst Frauen und Menschen ohne Bildung lesen könnten. Es war das Vorwort zu drei wissenschaftlichen Abhandlungen (Optik, Meteore, Geometrie), doch das Vorwort hat das Buch verschlungen. Geschrieben aus Holland, wo Descartes mit der Vorsicht eines Mannes lebte, der vier Jahre zuvor gesehen hatte, was Galilei widerfahren war. Es ist die Geburtsurkunde der modernen Philosophie: das zweifelnde Ich als Fundament von allem.
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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…