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Descartes' Le Monde, 1664 The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology.
René Descartes (/ d eɪ ˈ k ɑːr t / day-KART or UK: / ˈ d eɪ k ɑːr t / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; [note 3] [11] 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) [12] [13]: 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
A philosophical and autobiographical treatise by René Descartes, published in 1637. It contains the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis" ("I think, therefore I am"), which expresses his method of doubt and certainty.
Cogito, ergo sum is the Latin phrase meaning "I think, therefore I am", which is the first principle of René Descartes's philosophy. It expresses the idea that the act of doubting one's own existence proves one's own existence as a thinking entity.
A philosophical treatise by René Descartes on metaphysics, published in Latin in 1641. It consists of six meditations, in which Descartes tries to establish what can be known for sure, starting from the doubt of everything except his own existence as a thinking thing.
The Search for Truth by Natural Light [1] (La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle) is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by René Descartes “set in the courtly culture of the ‘ honnête homme ’ and ‘ curiosité ’.” [2] It was written in French (presumably after the Meditations was completed [3]) but first published (Amsterdam, 1684) in Dutch translation in a ...
Regulae ad directionem ingenii, or Rules for the Direction of the Mind is an unfinished treatise regarding the proper method for scientific and philosophical thinking by René Descartes. Descartes started writing the work in 1628, and it was eventually published in 1701 after Descartes' death. [1]
Cartesian doubt is a systematic process of doubting all beliefs to find certain knowledge, based on the writings and methodology of René Descartes. It involves using arguments such as the dream and the evil demon to question sense data and rationalism, and concluding that only the self-evident "I think, therefore I am" is indubitable.
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