Regulae Ad Directionem IngeniiExactly four hundred years after the birth of René Descartes (1596-1650), the present volume now makes available, for the first time in a bilingual, philosophical edition prepared especially for English-speaking readers, his Regulae ad directionem ingenii / Rules for the Direction of the Natural Intelligence (1619-1628), the Cartesian treatise on method. This unique edition contains an improved version of the original Latin text, a new English translation intended to be as literal as possible and as liberal as necessary, an interpretive essay contextualizing the text historically, philologically, and philosophically, a com-prehensive index of Latin terms, a key glossary of English equivalents, and an extensive bibliography covering all aspects of Descartes' methodology. Stephen Gaukroger has shown, in his authoritative Descartes: An Intellectual Biography (1995), that one cannot understand Descartes without understanding the early Descartes. But one also cannot understand the early Descartes without understanding the Regulae / Rules. Nor can one understand the Regulae / Rules without understanding a philosophical edition thereof. Therein lies the justification for this project. The edition is intended, not only for students and teachers of philosophy as well as of related disciplines such as literary and cultural criticism, but also for anyone interested in seriously reflecting on the nature, expression, and exercise of human intelligence: What is it? How does it manifest itself? How does it function? How can one make the most of what one has of it? Is it equally distributed in all human beings? What is natural about it, and what, not? In the Regulae / Rules Descartes tries to provide, from a distinctively early modern perspective, answers both to these and to many other questions about what he refers to as ingenium. |
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... contains an improved version of the original Latin text , a new English translation intended to be as literal as possible and as liberal as necessary , an interpretive essay contextualizing the text historically , philologically , and ...
... contains an improved version of the original Latin text , a new English translation intended to be as literal as possible and as liberal as necessary , an interpretive essay contextualizing the text historically , philologically , and ...
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... contain the complete text of the Regula . See John Cottingham , Robert Stoothoff , and Dugald Murdoch ( trans . ) , Descartes : Selected Philosophical Writings ( Cambridge , 1988 ) . Only Rules I - XIII are given on pp . 1–19 . 3 Or ...
... contain the complete text of the Regula . See John Cottingham , Robert Stoothoff , and Dugald Murdoch ( trans . ) , Descartes : Selected Philosophical Writings ( Cambridge , 1988 ) . Only Rules I - XIII are given on pp . 1–19 . 3 Or ...
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... contains a handy list of pertinent references to the Discourse ( p . 391 ) . 7 See , e.g. , Letter to Mersenne , Feb. 27 , 1637 ( ? ) ( AT , I , 349 ) : ' But I have not been able to under- stand very well your objection concerning the ...
... contains a handy list of pertinent references to the Discourse ( p . 391 ) . 7 See , e.g. , Letter to Mersenne , Feb. 27 , 1637 ( ? ) ( AT , I , 349 ) : ' But I have not been able to under- stand very well your objection concerning the ...
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... contain his ' metaphysical meditations'.38 Thus the chronological clues provided by the Discourse on the Method enable the Regula to emerge as the key text of the early Descartes . For there happens to be a coin- cidence between the ...
... contain his ' metaphysical meditations'.38 Thus the chronological clues provided by the Discourse on the Method enable the Regula to emerge as the key text of the early Descartes . For there happens to be a coin- cidence between the ...
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... contains an initial intimation of evidence as the key to knowledge.68 Rule 4 , concerning the necessity of method for the investigation of the truth of things , defines method in terms of rules . and thus may be characterized as that ...
... contains an initial intimation of evidence as the key to knowledge.68 Rule 4 , concerning the necessity of method for the investigation of the truth of things , defines method in terms of rules . and thus may be characterized as that ...
Contents
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The Regula and the Principles 1644 | 27 |
Manuscripts Editions Translations of the Regula | 47 |
De scientia et cognitione | 70 |
De intuitione et deductione | 76 |
De methodo mathematica et mathesi universali | 84 |
De ordine et dispositione rerum | 98 |
De enumeratione sive inductione | 106 |
De limitibus rationis humanae | 112 |
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De capacitate illationis | 134 |
De quaestionibus perfecte intellectis | 166 |
De repraesentatione et sensibus | 194 |
De desideratis | 216 |
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adeo Adrien Baillet aëre alia aliis aliqua aliquid aliud Aristotle atque autem cetera cognitionem deduction denique Descartes directionem ingenii Discourse distinct distinctly eadem edition enim eodem etiam etiamsi Étienne Gilson evidence figures geometry haec hanc human ibid illa illam illis illorum illud intellect inter inter se intuition ipsis knowledge lacuna Latin Leibniz Letter to Mersenne Logista magis magnitudes mathematics mathesis universalis means Meditations memory metaphysical method Missing in H modo natural intelligence nempe neque nihil nisi nobis omnes omnia omnibus omnium passim philosophy posse possit potest Premiss propositions quae quam quas question quia quibus quid quidem quod quomodo ratione reason Regula Regulæ ad directionem René Descartes rerum revera rule saepe sense Sextus Empiricus simul singula sint sive sunt tamen tantum things tion treatise truth tunc understand unquam vero