Ep. 231: Descartes's "Discourse" on Wisdom and Certainty (Part One) - a podcast by Mark Linsenmayer

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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