Discourse on Method Author:Rene Descartes, Arthur Wollaston (Translator) In Descartes' view, the central problem is certainty and the general purpose of this book is to show how he dealt with it. He hoped to show that his method of explaining the physical universe placed in his hands a philosophy with proofs (as convincing as those of mathematics) of the existence of God and the nature of the human soul, and thereby ... more »be accepted in place of Aristotle.
This book also contains his Meditations and the letter-preface to his Principles of Philosophy.« less