by René Descartes · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253012184
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«Discours de la méthode» is the philosophical essay by René Descartes, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (228 pages, in French).
In this work, Descartes presents methodical doubt as the starting point for achieving certainties and sets out the rules of a method inspired by mathematics. Descartes examines the nature of the self, the existence of God and the relationship between mind and body, and adds a provisional moral code.
Edition number 2593 of Le Livre de Poche; includes the preliminary essay 'Descartes inutile et incertain' by Jean-François Revel and commentary and notes by Jean-Marie Beyssade.
For philosophy students and readers with a level of French interested in seventeenth-century rationalism.
René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, logician, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science during the Renaissance era. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry.
