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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... thoughts on these topics I shall largely reserve for future forays . With gratitude I wish to acknowledge the assistance of the following individuals and institutions in the preparation of the present volume . The Department of ...
... thoughts on these topics I shall largely reserve for future forays . With gratitude I wish to acknowledge the assistance of the following individuals and institutions in the preparation of the present volume . The Department of ...
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... thought of himself as having worked for ' twenty years ' on the methodological issues of the Discourse and of the Essays . Cf. DM , VI , § 10 ( AT , VI , 76 ) , and Letter to Mersenne , Jun . 29 , 1638 ( AT , II , 191–192 ) . 12 Of ...
... thought of himself as having worked for ' twenty years ' on the methodological issues of the Discourse and of the Essays . Cf. DM , VI , § 10 ( AT , VI , 76 ) , and Letter to Mersenne , Jun . 29 , 1638 ( AT , II , 191–192 ) . 12 Of ...
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... thoughts according to its rules , I reserved for myself from time to time some hours that I spent particularly in practicing it in problems of mathematics , or even in some other problems , too , which I was able to render , as it were ...
... thoughts according to its rules , I reserved for myself from time to time some hours that I spent particularly in practicing it in problems of mathematics , or even in some other problems , too , which I was able to render , as it were ...
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... thoughts ' ( AT , VI , 28 ) , adding that ' the winter had not been over for very long when [ he ] set out to travel ' ( ibid ... thought through in Holland in 1629. In any case , since the last sentence of part three describes Descartes ...
... thoughts ' ( AT , VI , 28 ) , adding that ' the winter had not been over for very long when [ he ] set out to travel ' ( ibid ... thought through in Holland in 1629. In any case , since the last sentence of part three describes Descartes ...
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... thought on this issue , namely , the older , more straightforward way , and a newer , more discriminating approach . On the one hand , for example , Millet - grasping the text as basically a unit – has proposed that the winter of 1628 ...
... thought on this issue , namely , the older , more straightforward way , and a newer , more discriminating approach . On the one hand , for example , Millet - grasping the text as basically a unit – has proposed that the winter of 1628 ...
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