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Esta obra marca el inicio de la filosofía moderna. Descartes cuestiona aquí que cualquier tipo de conocimiento pueda basarse en algo tan engañoso como los sentidos. Para buscar la verdad tenemos que poner en duda lo que sabemos. Y de aquí surgirá su máxima universal: si somos capaces de dudar es porque podemos pensar. Esa es la única certeza que tenemos: la razón es la prueba de nuestra existencia. Aunque hoy pueda no parecerlo, este fue un principio revolucionario que marcó el método deductivo y de pensamiento que llega a nuestros días. Un título esencial de la mano de una de las mentes más destacadas de la historia.



This classic is best known for kindling modern philosophy. Descartes questions any knowledge that is derived from our treacherous, human senses; in order to find truth, one must question what is "known." This is what has led many to realize that our ability to doubt is the result of our ability to think. It is the only certainty we have in life. Only our ability to reason can prove that we exist. Today, it's a principle that we can easily take for granted, but in its day, it sparked the deductive method that is so prevalent in our time. This is an essential read that illustrates a brilliant moment in history.

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Best known for the quote from his Meditations de prima philosophia, or Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), "I think therefore I am," philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes also devoted much of his time to the studies of medicine, anatomy and meteorology. Part of his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Searching for the Truth in the Sciences (1637) became the foundation for analytic geometry. Descartes is also credited with designing a machine to grind hyperbolic lenses, as part of his interest in optics.

Rene Descartes was born in 1596 in La Haye, France. He began his schooling at a Jesuit college before going to Paris to study mathematics and to Poitiers in 1616 to study law. He served in both the Dutch and Bavarian military and settled in Holland in 1629. In 1649, he moved to Stockholm to be a philosophy tutor to Queen Christina of Sweden. He died there in 1650. Because of his general fame and philosophic study of the existence of God, some devout Catholics, thinking he would be canonized a saint, collected relics from his body as it was being transported to France for burial.

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