Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Tractatus: A Manifestation of Descartes' Rules for the Direction of the Mind
The Tractatus is a manifestation of Descartes' rules for the direction of the mind. "I find Descartes himself kind of pleasant to read, but what I really liked about the rules was just a kind of workman-like way of going through and then just setting out these rules," he says. The idea that we want to think clearly still exists in analytic philosophy.
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