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Article: A Discourse on the Method.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2007
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A Discourse on the Method. By Rene Descartes. Trans. by Ian Maclean. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. lxxvi + 84 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-282514-8.
This is a new translation of Descartes's well-known 1637 essay introducing the three treatises Meteors, Dioptrics, and Geometry. While few people read these treatises nowadays, most still find the Discourse intriguing, probably because of its autobiographical style and sections on method and ethics, the early version of the Meditations it contains, and the glimpses it imparts of Descartes's unpublished initial physics. Numerous translations of the Discourse are ...