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Discourse on the Method

René Descartes · 1637 · translated by John Veitch

Descartes’ intellectual autobiography and his four rules for thinking — the book where the cogito first appears in print.

22,835 words · 15 pages · about 1 h 44 min of reading

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Lessons cite it by Part number — for example IV. Those numbers appear in the margin as you read, so a citation and the page agree.

Contents

Part I

  1. Part I 1,587 words
  2. Part I 1,050 words

Part II

  1. Part II 1,725 words
  2. Part II 1,610 words

Part III

  1. Part III 1,729 words
  2. Part III 885 words

Part IV

  1. Part IV 1,700 words
  2. Part IV 1,081 words

Part V

  1. Part V 1,792 words
  2. Part V 1,589 words
  3. Part V 2,361 words

Part VI

  1. Part VI 1,677 words
  2. Part VI 2,072 words
  3. Part VI 1,553 words
  4. Part VI 424 words