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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

René Descartes

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If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals which he has deduced from this Method; in the fourth, the reasonings by which he establishes the existence of God and of the H…

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  • AuthorRené Descartes
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #59
  • Length23,018 words
  • Chapters7
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-21

Contents

7 chapters

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  1. 01PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR
  2. 02PART I
  3. 03PART II
  4. 04PART III
  5. 05PART IV
  6. 06PART V
  7. 07PART VI

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