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"Rules for the Direction of the Mind [Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii]"
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Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"Even though problems such as these can often be solved without a method and can sometimes perhaps be solved more quickly through good luck than through method, nevertheless they might dim the light of the mind and make it become so habituated to childish and futile pursuits that thereafter it wo...
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"So the same light of the mind which enabled them to see (albeit without knowing why) that virtue is preferable to pleasure, the good preferable to the useful, also enabled them to grasp true ideas in philosophy and mathematics, although they were not yet able fully to master such sciences"
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
