Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part One)
Dec 09, 2019•40 min
Episode description
On René Descartes’s Discourse on Method (1637), an overview of his work that distills his method, outlines his famous Meditations, presents a provisional (Stoic) ethics, and considers whether he wants to be a public intellectual. This is all meant as a preface to scientific publications on geometry, optics, and meteors.
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