ON METHOD

DISCOURSE

FOR RIGHTLY CONDUCTING ONE'S REASON AND SEEKING

TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES

If this s discourse s seems too long to be be all read read The original French 'leu' is an archaic spelling of 'lu' (read) at once, it may be divided into six parts. And, in the first, various considerations regarding the sciences will be found. In the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has sought. In the 3rd, some of those of Morality Descartes refers to his 'provisional code of morals'—a set of ethical rules to live by while he deconstructed his existing beliefs which he has derived from this Method. In the 4th, the reasons by which he proves the existence of God and of the human soul, which are the foundations of his Metaphysics. In the 5th, the order of the questions of Physics that he has investigated, and particularly the explanation of the movement of the heart and some other difficulties belonging to Medicine, then also the difference between our soul and that of beasts Descartes famously argued that animals were biological machines without conscious souls. And in the last, what things he believes are required to go further in the investigation of Nature than he has gone, and what reasons moved him to write.

FIRST PART.

Good s sense s is the s best distributed thing in the world: for everyone thinks himself so well provided with it, that