Regulae Ad Directionem Ingenii / Rules for the Direction of the Natural Intelligence : : Rules for the Direction of the Natural Intelligence. a Bilingual Edition.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Ideas in the Low Countries Series ; v.3
• Author: Descartes, René.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1998.; ©1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Ideas in the Low Countries Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)

Exactly four hundred years after the birth of René Descartes (1596-1650), the present volume now makes available, for the first time in a bilingual, philosophical edition prepared especially for English-speaking readers, his Regulae ad directionem ingenii / Rules for the Direction of the Natural Intelligence (1619-1628), the Cartesian treatise on method. This unique edition contains an improved version of the original Latin text, a new English translation intended to be as literal as possible and as liberal as necessary, an interpretive essay contextualizing the text historically, philologically, and philosophically, a com-prehensive index of Latin terms, a key glossary of English equivalents, and an extensive bibliography covering all aspects of Descartes' methodology. Stephen Gaukroger has shown, in his authoritative Descartes: An Intellectual Biography (1995), that one cannot understand Descartes without understanding the early Descartes. But one also cannot understand the early Descartes without understanding the Regulae / Rules. Nor can one understand the Regulae / Rules without understanding a philosophical edition thereof. Therein lies the justification for this project. The edition is intended, not only for students and teachers of philosophy as well as of related disciplines such as literary and cultural criticism, but also for anyone interested in seriously reflecting on the nature, expression, and exercise of human intelligence: What is it? How does it manifest itself? How does it function? How can one make the most of what one has of it? Is it equally distributed in all human beings? What is natural about it, and what, not? In the Regulae / Rules Descartes tries to provide, from a distinctively early modern perspective, answers both to these and to many other questions about what he refers to as ingenium.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION A Contextualization of the Text -- A Brief Protreptic: The Rationale for this Edition -- History: The Regulæ in Descartes' Early Years (1618-1629) -- Prolegomena: 'The Metaphysical Correspondence' (1630) -- Text and Context I: The Regulæ and the Discourse (1637) -- Text and Context II: The Regulæ and the Meditations (1641) -- Text and Context III: The Regulæ and the Principles (1644) -- Philosophy: The Architectonic Argument of the Regulæ -- Philology: Manuscripts, Editions, Translations of the Regulæ -- Bibliography: Observations, Opinions, Orientations -- The Uniqueness of the Present Edition -- REGULÆ AD DIRECTIONEM INGENII / RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE NATURAL INTELLIGENCE -- LIBER I De propositionibus simplicibus et illationibus / BOOK ONE On Simple Propositions and Inferences -- Regula I: De sapientia et scientia / Rule 1: One On Wisdom and Science -- Regula II: De scientia et cognitione / Rule 2: On Science and Knowledge -- Regula III: De intuitione et deductione / Rule 3: On Intuition and Deduction -- Regula IV: De methodo, mathematica, et mathesi universali / Rule 4: On Method, Mathematics, and mathesis universalis -- Regula V: De ordine et dispositionc rerum / Rule 5: On the Order and Arrangement of Things -- Regula VI: De naturis simplicibus et respectibus involutis / Rule 6: On Simple Natures and Complex Relations -- Regula VII: De enumeratione sive inductione / Rule 7: On Enumeration or Induction -- Regula VIII: De limitibus ration is humanae / Rule 8: On the Limits of Human Reason -- Regula IX: De perspicacitate intuitionis / Rule 9: On Perspicacity of Intuition -- Regula X: De sagacitate deductionis / Rule 10: On Sagacity of Deduction -- Regula XI: De capacitate illationis / Rule 11: On Capacity of Inference.

Regula XII: De vi et operationibus ingenii / Rule 12: On the Power and Operations of the Natural Intelligence -- LIBER II De quacstionibus perfecte intellectis / BOOK 2 On Perfectly Understood Questions -- Regula XIII: De resolutione directa quaestionum / Rule 13: On the Direct Resolution of Questions -- Regula XIV: De repraesentatione et imaginatione / Rule 14: On Representation and the Imagination -- Regula XV: De repraesentatione et sensibus / Rule 15: On Representation and the Senses -- Regula XVI: De repraesentatione et memoria / Rule 16: On Representation and the Memory -- Regula XVII: De resolutione indirecta quaestionum / Rule 17: On the Indirect Resolution of Questions -- Regula XIX: De desideratis / Rule 19: On Desiderata -- Regula XX: De desideratis / Rule 20: On Desiderata -- Regula XXI: De desideratis / Rule 21: On Desiderata -- Regulae XXII-XXIV: Omnino desunt / Rules 22-24: Completely Missing -- LIBER III De quaestionibus imperfecte intellectis / BOOK 3 On imperfectly Understood Questions -- Regulae XXV-XXXVI: Onmino desunt / Rules 25-36: Completely Missing -- APPENDIX -- Extrait de 'La logique ou l'art de penser' -- Extract from 'The Logic or The Art of Thinking' -- INDEX -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.