方法序説 (ed. 2)
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- APAデカルト. (n.d.). 方法序説 (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/descartes/a-discourse-of-a-method-for-the-well-guiding-of-reason
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何についての本か
デカルトが学んだすべてを疑うと決意し、疑いに耐えて残ったただひとつの確実性——我思う、ゆえに我あり——から知識を建て直していく物語。
背景と歴史
1637年、ライデンで匿名により出版された。学者の言語ラテン語ではなくフランス語で書かれたのは、彼の言葉によれば「女性や学のない人々にも」読めるようにするためだった。もとは三つの科学論文（光学・気象学・幾何学）の序文だったが、序文が本文を呑み込んでしまった。執筆はオランダから——四年前にガリレイの身に起きたことを見て、デカルトは慎重に暮らしていた。近代哲学の出生証明書である。疑う自我を、すべての土台に据えたのだから。
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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…