Discourse on the Method
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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known a
Discourse on the Method
"...the reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries–" (Discourse part I, AT p. 5)
Cogito, ergo sum
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The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", is the "first principle" of the philosophy of the French scientist and philosopher René Descartes. He original
Discourse on the Method
…and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis" ("I think, therefore I am", or "I am thinking, therefore I exist"), which occurs in Part IV of the work. A similar argument without this precise wording is found in Meditations…
René Descartes, who published the phrase in Discourse on the Method, in 1637
"ego cogito, ergo sum" with margin note in original (1644) Principia Philosophae