Discurso del método
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~23.200 palabras · 110 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APADescartes. (n.d.). Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth [Discurso del método]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/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 [Discurso del método]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/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 [Discurso del método]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/descartes/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-of-seeking-truth.
Referencia de la edición que reproduce SigPhi: SigPhi es su reproducción digital, no el editor. El año de la edición no consta en los metadatos (por eso «n.d.») y el traductor solo aparece cuando consta.
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.
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.…