Discorso sul metodo (ed. 2)
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Testo pulito
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- ~21.700 parole · 103 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APACartesio. (n.d.). Discorso sul metodo (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason
- MLACartesio. "Discorso sul metodo (ed. 2)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason.
- ChicagoCartesio. Discorso sul metodo (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason.
Di che cosa tratta
Il racconto di come Descartes decise di dubitare di tutto ciò che aveva appreso e di ricostruire il sapere dall'unica certezza che resistette: penso, dunque sono.
Contesto e storia
Pubblicato nel 1637 a Leida, anonimo e in francese — non in latino, la lingua dei dotti: Descartes voleva che potessero leggerlo, disse, perfino le donne e la gente senza studi. Era la prefazione a tre saggi scientifici (diottrica, meteore, geometria), ma la prefazione si è mangiata il libro. Scritto dall'Olanda, dove Descartes viveva con la prudenza di chi aveva visto cos'era accaduto a Galileo quattro anni prima. È l'atto di nascita della filosofia moderna: l'io che dubita come fondamento di tutto.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul 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…