Rene Descartes

Meditations on First Philosophy


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After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his conte…

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth


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The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method …