Discurso del método (ed. 2)
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- ~21.700 palabras · 103 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APADescartes. (n.d.). A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason [Discurso del método (ed. 2)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason
- MLADescartes. A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason [Discurso del método (ed. 2)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason.
- ChicagoDescartes. A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason [Discurso del método (ed. 2)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason.
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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.
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Authors of them, and even a studyed conversation, wherein they discover to us the best only of their thoughts. That eloquence hath forces & beauties which are incomparable. That Poetry hath delicacies and sweets extremly ravishing; That the Mathematicks hath most subtile inventions, which very much conduce aswel to content the curious, as to facilitate all arts, and to lessen the labour of Men: That those writings which treat of manners contain divers instructions, and exhortations to vertue, which are very usefull. That Theology teacheth the way to heaven; That Philosophy affords us the means to speake of all things with probability, and makes her self admir'd, by the least knowing Men. That Law, Physick and other sciences bring honor and riches to those who practice them; Finally that its good to have examin'd them all even the falsest and the most superstitious, that we may discover their just value, and preserve our selves from their cheats. But I thought I had spent time enough in the languages, and even also in the lecture of ancient books, their histories and their fables. For 'tis even the same thing to converse with those of former ages, as to travel. Its good to know something of the manners of severall Nations, that we may not think that all things against our _Mode_ are ridiculous or unreasonable, as those are wont to do, who have seen Nothing. But when we employ too long time in travell, we at last become strangers to our own Country, and when we are too curious of those things, which we practised in former times, we commonly remain ignorant of those which are now in use.…