or Rightly conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Science

The Discourse on the Method is one of the most influential works in the history of modern philosophy, and important to the evolution of natural sciences. In this work, Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism, which had previously been studied by Sextus Empiricus, Al-Ghazaliand Michel de Montaigne. Descartes modified it to account for a truth he found to be incontrovertible. Descart es started his line of reasoning by doubting everything, so as to assess the world from a fresh perspective, clear of any preconceived notions.

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