Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part One)

Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part One)

By Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey

On René Descartes’s Discourse on Method (1637), an overview of his work that distills his method, outlines his famous Meditations, presents a provisional (Stoic) ethics, and considers whether he wants to be a public intellectual. This is all meant as a preface to scientific publications on geometry, optics, and meteors.

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