Cultural Reader

René Descartes is one of the most influential thinkers in history and the father of modern philosophy. Here is a reading list and recommenda...

Methodical Doubt (or  Cartesian Doubt)  is a philosophical method developed by the philosopher René Descartes . The question that preoccupie...

The dream argument (In  René Descartes ' Meditation and in Philosophy in General) is the assertion that the act of dreaming provides int...

Descartes' wax argumrent appears in the second chapter of his Meditations . Descartes watches the wax as it changes shape and melts whe...

Cartesian moral philosophy is found in particular in Descartes' Discourse on Method , where the provisional moral maxims are made, It fi...

Principles of Philosophy is a book written by René Descartes . In essence, it is a synthesis of the Discourse on Method and Meditations . ...

Cogito, ergo sum is a Latin phrase meaning“I think, therefore I am”. Used by French philosopher René Descartes in the Discourse on Method ...

In the philosophy of René Descartes , the method of doubt (or Cartesian doubt, Descartes' Doubt or methodical doubt) is a way of seeking...

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) was both a philosopher and a mathematician; a rationalist who only believed in reason. Descartes wanted to buil...

In part 6 of " Discourse on the Method "  René  Descartes  writes that although not feeling a personal need for publishing his w...

In part 5 of " Discourse on the Method " (titled: " Physics, the heart, and the soul of man and animals ")  René  De...

In part 4 of his " Discourse on the Method " (titled: " Proof of God and the Soul ")  René  Descartes  implements his...

In chapter 3 of his " Discourse on the Method " (titled: " Morals and Maxims accepted while conducting the Method ")  ...

In chapter 2 of his " Discourse on the Method " (titled: " The principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovere...