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A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason by René Descartes

solarwave's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

jeannepirouette's review against another edition

4.0

(note entièrement dédiée à la préface)

azxlinx's review against another edition

1.0

1.5

r_musil's review against another edition

3.0

1- میان مردم، عقل از همه چیز بهتر تقسیم شده است، زیرا هر کس بهره ی خود را از آن چنان تمام می داند که مردمانی که در هر چیز دیگر بسیار دیرپسندند، از عقل بیش از آنکه دارند آرزو نمی کنند.
2- کتاب با جمله ی یک شروع میشه، برعکس چیزی که به نظر میرسه به قصد تمسخر نیست و اونطور که در پانویس قید شده منظور از عقل چیزیه که بین انسان ها و حیوانات تفاوت ایجاد می کنه.
3- دکارت مقاله ش رو در شش گفتار به عنوان پیشگفتاری برای کتاب بزرگش نوشته و در این مقاله توضیح داده که چه طور اصول خودش رو پیدا کرده و بر اساس اون ها شروع به شناخت دنیا کرده.
4- نثر کتاب به نسبت سخت خوانه و به غیر از پیشگفتار دوم بیشتر از اینکه تحلیل مسائل فلسفی باشه توضیحات آقای دکارته در قالب جملات بسیار بلند در باره ی نوع نگاهش.
5- دکارت لااقل در کتابش بسیار آدم محافظه کاریه و برای اینکه تصور دیگران از دنیا رو به چالش بکشه، دنیایی خیالی رو فرض میکنه که تماما مثل دنیاییه که درش هستیم و تنها تفاوتش اینه که قوانین اشتباه دنیای ما رو نداره.
6- آقای دکارت در همین میگه می اندیشم پس هستم.
7- کتاب 61 صفحه ست و در نسخه 101 صفحه ای من از انتشارات علمی و فرهنگی، چهل صفحه اختصاص داده شده به لغت نامه انگلیسی فرانسوی که بدیهیه به معنای اسراف کاغذ و چاپیدن خریداره، لااقل یه مقاله دیگه میذاشتین

neclord's review against another edition

informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.0

snowcat5's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

abarbaramf's review against another edition

2.0

Read this for Philosophy year 11. My final paper was on how rationalism doesn't make any sense.
I think the only reason why I'm giving this 2 stars instead of 1 is because I remember having quite a good grade for it.

byrenical's review against another edition

slow-paced

1.5

You’re probably best off googling “I think, therefore I am” and reading a paragraph summary of it and you will save some time. Descartes makes a point of mentioning years of travels (I would have preferred to read about that) and then comes to the conclusion “I think therefore I am”. It may have been while he was on the toilet, we will never know. He then proceeds to dazzle us with his knowledge about the heart and the ventricles for way too long, which then quickly results in proof of God and also something that proves that our souls are immortal. I may have missed a spot while dazzled as I seemed to have missed the proof. I think, therefore, he may have been scared to not praise and prove God over the likely instance of him getting killed had he not. So I will give an extra star for his cowardice, but I will take it off again as he is French and that makes it cliché. 

Overall 1.5 / 5 stars 

As the last fifth of the book has him slyly throwing shade at religious zealousness and telling his potential future detractors “come at me bro!” 

rooafza's review against another edition

4.0

Cogito Ergo Sum. The book that heralded the modern age. Descartes' explanation of his scientific method kick-started the "Age of Reason" and was responsible for the break between science and philosophy. As a direct result of his method, science came to be an organized international peer-reviewed enterprise as we know it today.

tancrni's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0