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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 3 / 2013  
         
  Article:   DESCARTES’ DISCOURS AS A PLAN FOR A UNIVERSAL SCIENCE.

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  Abstract:  My thesis is that Descartes wrote the Discours as a plan for a universal science, as he originally entitled it. I provide an interpretation of his letters that suggests that after Descartes began drafting his Dioptrics, he started developing a system that incorporated his early treatises from the 1630s: Les Méteores, Le Monde, L’Homme, and his 1629 Traité de métaphysique. I argue against the mosaic and autobiographic interpretations that claim these were independent treatises or stages in Descartes’ life. Rather, I hold that threat of condemnation concerning his heliocentric thesis resulted in him suppressing his larger project and, instead, he published a plan where he outlined his ongoing system of philosophy.

Keywords: Descartes, Discours, Le Monde, Gilbert Gadoffre, method, stoicism.

 
         
     
         
         
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