Discourse on the Method: Deep Review

Original academic guide to Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes.

• Great Books & Ideas
• 43 min
• Ages 15–99
• 10 chapters

About this audiobook

Descartes's intellectual autobiography and methodological manifesto on doubt, reason, certainty, mathematics, mechanism, experiment, and rebuilding knowledge from secure foundations.

Why it's worth a listen

Restore the Discourse's strange mixture of autobiography, caution, metaphysics, scientific ambition, and public persuasion beyond the isolated cogito slogan.

Based on the book by René Descartes, published by Emma's Library

Chapters

1. The Problem This Book Is Trying To Solve
2. The Intellectual Landscape of 1637: Crisis, Caution, and Galileo
3. Part One and Two: The Autobiographical Journey and the Four Rules of Method
4. Part Three: The Provisional Moral Code
5. Part Four: The Cogito, Metaphysics, and the Existence of God
6. Part Five: Physics, Physiology, and the Beast-Machine
7. Part Six: The Call for Collaborative Science and the Appended Essays
8. Why Scholars Still Assign It: Beyond the Isolated Slogan
9. What Is Brilliant, and What Is Dangerous or Dated
10. How to Read the Discourse Today and Who Will Benefit Most