https://www.scientowiki.com/index.php?title=Rodis-Lewis_(1992)&feed=atom&action=historyRodis-Lewis (1992) - Revision history2024-03-28T12:35:43ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.34.1https://www.scientowiki.com/index.php?title=Rodis-Lewis_(1992)&diff=9198&oldid=prevWilliam Rawleigh: Created page with "{{Bibliographic Record |Title=Descartes' Life and the Development of His Philosophy |Resource Type=collection article |Author=Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, |Year=1992 |Abstract="I re..."2016-12-01T18:13:05Z<p>Created page with "{{Bibliographic Record |Title=Descartes' Life and the Development of His Philosophy |Resource Type=collection article |Author=Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, |Year=1992 |Abstract="I re..."</p>
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|Title=Descartes' Life and the Development of His Philosophy<br />
|Resource Type=collection article<br />
|Author=Genevieve Rodis-Lewis,<br />
|Year=1992<br />
|Abstract="I resolved one day to ... use all the powers of my mind in choosing the paths I should follow" (Discourse Part I: AT VI 10: CSM I 116). Thus Descartes introduces his account of his celebrated first solitary retreat during the winter of 1619-20. But he goes on to note that he decided to postpone actually embarking on his life's work until he had reached "a more mature age than twenty-three, as [he] then was" (Part II: AT VI 22: CSM I 122). Toward the end of the winter of 1619-20, then, he began to travel, and this occupied "the next nine years"; only after these "nine years" did he finally work out his philosophy, which was to be "more certain than the commonly accepted one" (Part III: AT VI 28, 30: CSM I 125-6). This period of Descartes' early life is obscured by the errors of his chief biographers, which have been repeated down the centuries. There is a marked tendency to bring forward his interest in science and the search for its foundations - an interest which in fact developed gradually and relatively late.<br />
|Collection=Cottingham (Ed.) (1992)<br />
|Pages=21-57<br />
}}</div>William Rawleigh