Descartes Meditations

Descartes Meditations

What is Descartes' primary goal in writing the Discourses? State the four rules stated by Descartes to ascertain true method to arrive at true knowledge?

Descartes is, of course, best known for his celebrated reflections on what there might be which he can know with certainty and for his first important conclusion: "I think; therefore, I am" (although to describe more accurately what Descartes means, we should probably translate that famous sentence as "I am thinking; therefore, I am," since the assurance of one's own existence comes only while the thinking is going on) (Cottingham & Stoothoff, 1988). Hence, while ...