# Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

Author: Descartes, René, 1596-1650; Veitch, John, 1829-1894 [Translator]

Genre: Harvard Classics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59

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## Summary

If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals which he has deduced from this Method; in the fourth, the reasonings by which he establishes the existence of God and of the Human Soul, which are the foundations of his Metaphysic; in the fifth, the order of the Physical questions which he has investigated, and, in particular, the explication of the motion of the heart and of some other difficulties pertaining to Medicine, as also the difference bet...

## Chapters

- [PART VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-a1764242/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-a1764242/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-a1764242/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-a1764242/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-a1764242/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-a1764242/chapters/6/index.md)
- [PART VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/discourse-on-the-method-of-rightly-conducting-one-s-reason-and-a1764242/chapters/7/index.md)