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  1. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
  2. Meditations on the First Philosophy
  3. Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
  4. Appendix Reasons Which Establish the Existence of God, and the Distinction Between the Mind and Body of Man, Disposed in Geometrical Order (From the Reply to the Second Objections—Latin, 1670, pp. 85–91. French, Garnier, Tom. II, pp. 74–84)
  5. Endnotes
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Philosophical Works

René Descartes, translated by John Veitch

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

Prefatory Note by the Author

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 Human Soul, which are the foundations of his Metaphysic; in the fifth, the order of the Physical questions which he has investigated, and, in particular, the explication of the motion of the heart and of some other difficulties pertaining to Medicine, as also the difference between the soul of man and that of the brutes; and, in the last, what the Author believes to be required in order to greater advancement in the investigation of Nature than has yet been made, with the reasons that have induced him to write.

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