#discourse on method

[raglanphd]

[ancientsstudies]

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

- René Descartes, Discourse on Method

[macrolit]

Philosophical Writings Rene Descartes

[lepistemologie]

“My third maxim was always to try to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing that is completely within our power except our thoughts, so that, after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything that is lacking for us to succeed is, from our point of view, absolutely impossible.”

- René Descartes, Discourse on Method, pt. 3

[celluloidwickerman]

Presence, or Polaroid Ghosts (Part 5)

Part 4 The French philosopher René Descartes believed that his recollections were evidence he was not dreaming. He knew he was not asleep and merely creating the world in his mind’s eye because he was surrounded by things possessing a context that he was aware of personally. ‘But when I perceive things of which I clearly know both the place they come from and that in which they are, and the…

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Descartes’ Discourse on Method and Meditations: a three-word preview

Check self-evidence.

[fatal-flaws-aflame]

And since, while being thus indifferent to being known or not, I have been unable to avoid acquiring some sort of reputation, I thought I ought to do my best at least to save myself from having a bad one.

from the Discourse on Method, René Descartes, tr. F.E. Sutcliffe

[shinylitwick94]

Finished reading the Discourse on Method. Overall, it turned out to be less interesting than I expected, although of course there were some very interesting bits in it. I was surprised by how personal (and, at times, rambly) it was. I’d kept a dull memory from my Philosophy classes in high school that it was indeed meant more as a personal thing for Descartes, but I didn’t expect it to be this personal, I guess. There was also what felt like an entire chapter on the circulatory system, which really caught me off guard. I think I liked it, but I’m not crazy about it. Then again, Philosophy isn’t usually my cup of tea, so what do I know.