Descartes’s Discourse I-III
Today we looked at the first half of the Discourse. Some things to pay attention to:
(1) The architectural analogy, and the emphasis on good foundations, recurs quite frequently.
(2) The four rules in Part II are key: you should develop a general familiarity with them.
(3) What’s going on in Part III? This notion of a provisional morality is an interesting one to bring up here, and you should be thinking about its implications for the method.
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