Rules for the Direction of the Mind

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Rules for the Direction of the Mind

work by Descartes

Also known as: “Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii”

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René Descartes
Early life and education
…Discourse on Method (1637) and Rules for the Direction of the Mind (written by 1628 but not published until 1701), consists of four rules: (1) accept nothing as true that is not self-evident, (2) divide problems into their simplest parts, (3) solve problems by proceeding from simple to complex, and…
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…Discourse on Method (1637) and Rules for the Direction of the Mind (written by 1628 but not published until 1701), consists of four rules: (1) accept nothing as true that is not self-evident, (2) divide problems into their simplest parts, (3) solve problems by proceeding from simple to complex, and…
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Western philosophy
The rationalism of Descartes
…the theory of method in Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1701) and the metaphysics of the Meditations on the First Philosophy (1642). But it is the mathematical theme that clearly predominates in Descartes’s philosophy.
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…the theory of method in Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1701) and the metaphysics of the Meditations on the First Philosophy (1642). But it is the mathematical theme that clearly predominates in Descartes’s philosophy.
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