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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... , ' Sur la composition de la Regula IV de Descartes ' , Revue philo- sophique de la France et de l'étranger , vol . 154 ( 1964 ) , pp . 1-20 . tion is falsifiable in general , Weber's account is not 6 A CONTEXTUALIZATION OF THE TEXT.
... , ' Sur la composition de la Regula IV de Descartes ' , Revue philo- sophique de la France et de l'étranger , vol . 154 ( 1964 ) , pp . 1-20 . tion is falsifiable in general , Weber's account is not 6 A CONTEXTUALIZATION OF THE TEXT.
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René Descartes George Heffernan. tion is falsifiable in general , Weber's account is not verifiable in all its particulars.43 But cannot the Discourse also be interpreted in such a way as to help to determine more accurately the date of ...
René Descartes George Heffernan. tion is falsifiable in general , Weber's account is not verifiable in all its particulars.43 But cannot the Discourse also be interpreted in such a way as to help to determine more accurately the date of ...
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... tion of algebra , into a universal mathematical discipline - is obvious . 63 But see Heinrich Springmeyer , Lüder Gäbe , and Hans Günter Zekl ( eds . ) , Regulæ ad directionem ingenii / Regeln zur Ausrichtung der Erkenntniskraft ...
... tion of algebra , into a universal mathematical discipline - is obvious . 63 But see Heinrich Springmeyer , Lüder Gäbe , and Hans Günter Zekl ( eds . ) , Regulæ ad directionem ingenii / Regeln zur Ausrichtung der Erkenntniskraft ...
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... tion to the Chandoux Conference - cf. The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza ( Berkeley , 1979 ) , pp . 174-175 - , which account emphasizes the connection between the reaction and the ref- erence , e.g. , to ' toutes les ...
... tion to the Chandoux Conference - cf. The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza ( Berkeley , 1979 ) , pp . 174-175 - , which account emphasizes the connection between the reaction and the ref- erence , e.g. , to ' toutes les ...
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... tion as the only modes of inference in the acquisition of knowledge , 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 ...
... tion as the only modes of inference in the acquisition of knowledge , 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 ...
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