The Philosophical Writings of Descartes

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• This consists in the search for the first causes and the true principles which enable us to deduce the reasons for everything we are capable of knowing; and it is above all those who have laboured to this end who have been called philosophers. I am not sure, however, that there has been anyone up till now who has suceeded in this project. The first and most important ... are Plato and Aristotle. The only difference between these two is that the former, following the footsteps of his master Socrates, ingenuously confessed that he had never yet been able to discover anything certain. He was content instead to write what seemed to him to be probable, and accordingly he used his imagination to devise various principles by means of which he tried to account for other beings. Aristotle, by contr... (查看原文)

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