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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... distinctly perceive is true , and this is the case because God guarantees it - et cetera . " But the following facts about the Regula , whose account of knowledge threat- ens to sink into oblivion , are also remarkable : First , there ...
... distinctly perceive is true , and this is the case because God guarantees it - et cetera . " But the following facts about the Regula , whose account of knowledge threat- ens to sink into oblivion , are also remarkable : First , there ...
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... distinctly per- ceives must also be true and cannot be false . 102 Sixth , since there is no such rule , there is also no claim of a proof or of a demonstration of the same and a fortiori no appeal to God as the guarantor of the ...
... distinctly per- ceives must also be true and cannot be false . 102 Sixth , since there is no such rule , there is also no claim of a proof or of a demonstration of the same and a fortiori no appeal to God as the guarantor of the ...
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... distinctly that I were to have no occasion to put it into doubt . ( " The Rule of Evidence and of Justification ' ) The second was to divide each of the difficulties that I would examine into as many parts as would be possible 109 Cf ...
... distinctly that I were to have no occasion to put it into doubt . ( " The Rule of Evidence and of Justification ' ) The second was to divide each of the difficulties that I would examine into as many parts as would be possible 109 Cf ...
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... distinctly are all true'.112 This is a fateful statement , and Des- cartes would subsequently spend a lot of time attempting to substantiate it.113 Indeed , already in the Discourse Descartes argues - without claiming to demonstrate or ...
... distinctly are all true'.112 This is a fateful statement , and Des- cartes would subsequently spend a lot of time attempting to substantiate it.113 Indeed , already in the Discourse Descartes argues - without claiming to demonstrate or ...
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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