Discours de la méthode (ed. 2)
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Texte propre
- Étendue:
- ~21 700 mots · 103 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APADescartes. (n.d.). Discours de la méthode (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason
- MLADescartes. "Discours de la méthode (ed. 2)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason.
- ChicagoDescartes. Discours de la méthode (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason.
De quoi il s'agit
Le récit de la décision de Descartes de douter de tout ce qu'il avait appris et de reconstruire le savoir à partir de la seule certitude qui résista : je pense, donc je suis.
Contexte et histoire
Publié en 1637 à Leyde, anonymement et en français — non en latin, langue des doctes : Descartes voulait qu'il pût être lu, disait-il, même des femmes et des gens sans études. C'était la préface de trois essais scientifiques (la Dioptrique, les Météores, la Géométrie), mais la préface a mangé le livre. Écrit depuis la Hollande, où Descartes vivait avec la prudence d'un homme qui avait vu ce qui était arrivé à Galilée quatre ans plus tôt. C'est l'acte de naissance de la philosophie moderne : le moi qui doute comme fondement de tout.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le 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…