Abstract
The Discours de la Méthode and the three essays that were published with it, the Dioptrique, the Météores, and the Géometrie make up a very curious book. The very title page emphasizes the preliminary discourse, and that discourse, the Discours de la Méthode, emphasizes method, the importance that method had for Descartes in making the discoveries he made, the importance that the method Descartes claims to have found will have for the progress of the sciences and for the benefit of humankind as whole. Descartes is not, of course, telling us that we are obligated to follow his method; the Discours is, after all, proposed “as a story, or, if you prefer, as a fable.” (AT VI 4). But Descartes expects that we will all see the light, the light of reason, of course, and follow his example.
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