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Discourse on Method

Disciplines:
epistemology
metaphysics
research/methodology

Summary

René Descartes's autobiographical methodological manifesto presenting his four rules of method and containing a preliminary version of the cogito and the proofs of God's existence.

Core Contribution

Establishes method over prior authority: accept only what is clear and distinct, analyze complex problems, proceed from simple to complex, review thoroughly. Introduces cogito and metaphysical foundations in accessible form.

Historical Influences

René Descartes

Intellectual Lineage

No conceptual lineage found.

Allied Works

Meditations on First Philosophy Critique of Pure Reason

Contemporaries & Peers

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Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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