Ep. 229: Descartes’s Rules for Thinking (Part One)

from The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · host Mark Linsenmayer

On René Descartes's Rules for Direction of the Mind (1628). Is there a careful way to approach problems that will ensure that you'll always be right? What if you just never assert anything you can't be sure of? This is Descartes's strategy, modeled on mathematics. We likewise carefully move step-by-step through this text. The post Ep. 229: Descartes’s Rules for Thinking (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.

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