title: Discourse on Method and Related Writings (Penguin Classics)
author: Rene Descartes
description: <b>Rene Descartes</b>&#160;(1596-1650), French philosopher and mathematician, is generally regarded as the founder of modern philosophy.&#160;<br><br><b>Desmond Clarke</b>&#160;is professor of philosophy at Unviersity College, Cork.
zlib_text: DESCARTES
  Discourse on
  Method
  Macmillan/Library of Liberal Arts
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive
  in 2011
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  DISCOURSE ON METHOD
  The Library of Liberal Arts
  OSKAR PIEST, FOUNDER
  
  DISCOURSE
  ON METHOD
  Rene Descartes
  Translated, with an Introduction, by
  Laurence J. Lafleur
  The Library of Liberal Arts
  published by
  Macmillan Publishing Company
  New York
  Collier Macmillan Publishers
  London
  
  Rene Descartes: 1596-1650
  Discourse on Method was originally published m 1637
  Copyright © 1956, by the Macmillan Publishing Company,
  a division of Macmillan, Inc.
  Copyright © 1950 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
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