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René Descartes›Discourse on the Method›Full Text

Discourse on the Method

Discourse on the Method

René Descartes · 1637

6 chapters · 59 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

Part I — Of Education and the Sciences

~13 min · 7 pages

Part II — The Principal Rules of the Method

~17 min · 8 pages

Part III — Some Rules of Morality

~13 min · 7 pages

Part IV — Proof of God and the Soul

~14 min · 8 pages

Part V — Physical Questions

~29 min · 14 pages

Part VI — Reasons for Publishing

~29 min · 15 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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