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Dec 2019
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Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisd...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On René Descartes's Discourse on Method (1637), an overview of his work that distills his method, outlines his famous Meditations, presents a provisional (Stoic) ethics, and considers whether he wants to be a public intellectual. This is all meant as a preface to scientific publications on geometry, optics, and meteors.

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