Discurso del método (ed. 2)
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- APADescartes. (n.d.). Discurso del método (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason
- MLADescartes. "Discurso del método (ed. 2)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason.
- ChicagoDescartes. Discurso del método (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason.
De qué trata
El relato de cómo Descartes decidió dudar de todo lo aprendido y reconstruir el conocimiento desde la única certeza que resistió: pienso, luego existo.
Contexto e historia
Publicado en 1637 en Leiden, anónimamente y en francés — no en latín, la lengua de los doctos: Descartes quería que pudieran leerlo «hasta las mujeres y la gente sin estudios», dijo. Era el prólogo de tres ensayos científicos (óptica, meteoros, geometría), pero el prólogo se ha comido al libro. Escrito desde Holanda, donde Descartes vivía con la prudencia de quien había visto lo ocurrido a Galileo cuatro años antes. Es la partida de nacimiento de la filosofía moderna: el yo que duda como fundamento de todo.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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…