Rene Descartes

Discourse on Method and Meditations of First Philosophy & Principles of Philosophy Rene Descartes

This collection of the works of Descartes contains the following books with book and chapter links for easier and practical read-through experience: Discourse On MethodThe Meditations On The First PhilosophyThe Principles of PhilosophyThe Discourse on the Method is one of the most influential works in the history of modern science. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natural sciences could evolve. In this work, Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism which had been revived from the ancients such as Sextus Empiricus by authors such as Al-Ghazali and Michel de Montaigne. Descartes modified it to account for a truth that he found to be incontrovertible. Descartes started his line of reasoning by doubting everything, so as to assess the world from a fresh perspective, clear of any preconceived notions.