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Cartesius Page #8
- Year:
- 1974
- 150 min
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by proceeding from the objects that
are the simplest and easiest to know,
and by gradually progressing
to the more difficult ones.
After we have intuited a certain
number of simple arrangements
we pass on to reflecting on
their reciprocal relationships
if clear and distinct
concepts result from them,
with a continuous movement of thought.
In this methodical search for
the truth, we use the intellect,
imagination, the senses
and the memory,
both to distinctly sense
the simple prepositions,
and to correctly compare the researched
things with ones already known.
I believe that all the things
that may be within the reach
of the knowledge of man follow
each other in the same way
as the long chains of simple
and easy reasoning
geometricians usually use
difficult demonstrations.
This, sirs, is some of the reasoning
by which I sustain the twenty one rules
that I have established for
the correct use of the human mind
Excuse me sir,
as you were talking,
I felt a great desire
to read your reasoning.
Tell me when you are
going to publish it.
I cannot tell you when
I'll publish it sirs,
those who know me, know well that
I am like a pilgrim , I love
travelling in my thoughts
just as I love travelling
across Europe
with the purpose of
observing men and things,
to be able to better discover
the infinite faces of the truth
and those of error.
Sir.
Yes, my dear Bretagne,
what's going on this morning?
An excellent day, sir.
I see that you consumed
many candles last night,
did you work late?
Sir, sir, it's almost midday.
Midday?
Yes, and there's already someone who's
been waiting for you for more than an hour.
Oh, send him away.
He's certainly a barbarian if he
comes to tire me at this time of day.
He's a merchant, he comes from Paris.
He says he has a letter for you from Father
Mersenne, do you want me to send him away?
Don't talk nonsense.
Go, tell him I 'm getting dressed
and will receive him straightaway.
Ah, tell the kitchen to
prepare lunch for two.
- Yes.
- And tell the kitchen I want it rich and succulent.
Very good sir.
He must be a really important
guest if your boss
ordered buying the most
expensive fruit in the market.
This way.
Come.
Do I really have to tell our
Paris friends, that for the moment
you have no intention
of returning to France?
Absolutely.
It's really incredible that
you prefer to live in this city
of merchants and sailors,
instead of at Paris, which
is the city of learned men.
Since I established myself here
at Dordrecht, I haven't desired
and to tell you the truth,
I prefer this retreat.
I prefer it, not only for the
silence of the convents
of the Carthusians and
of the hermitages,
but also to the privacy of
certain towns of France and Italy
refuge in order to study in peace.
I n the towns many of the
comforts are always missing
that are found in cities like these.
But I'm too well known ,
here instead there
is no one, me excepted
who does not perform trade
by his own interests that
I could stay here all my life
without ever being disturbed by a sole.
There is a school of Latin
letters and in this school,
apart from my only friend Beeckman,
there is no one else
that I know of interested in the
things that concern my mind.
middle of the confusion
same freedom and peace
that you can find in a country town,
and I look at the men I meet
as I would look at trees
and animals in a forest.
does not succeed in interrupting
my fantasising any more than
the babbling of a brook would.
And you who travel,
can you tell me
any other country
can you en joy such complete
liberty as in Holland.
But the climate?
The winter here is very hard,
the humidity of the fog
corrodes your bones.
It's enough to have
a good stove,
and not to leave home
if the weather's bad.
Ah, ah, ah, you are
an unbeatable hardhead.
by to collect my reply
to Father Mersenne's letter
you brought to me,
to me straightaway.
No, the reply to Father Mersenne
requires much reflection
and I cannot interrupt
a new difficult study
I am performing on optics right now.
I will only return to Dordrecht at the
end of my journey, in thirty days time.
you with the tavern owner,
as in a month I will
no longer be here.
And where will you be?
I still don't know yet.
I on the other hand am persuaded
that you know very well,
but don't want to tell me.
It is said that when you
write to friends in Paris,
you mysteriously date your letters,
not from the place where you living,
but from other places,
Amsterdam, Leida or any way
places in which it is certain
you are not to be found in.
It is very difficult to find fruit
as good as this in Paris,
here in Holland, an infinite amount
arrives from the West Indies.
Are you certain it doesn't
harm the intestines?
Absolutely, it is much less indigestible
than the discourses of certain doctors.
Ah, ah, ah, ah.
I thank you , I thank you infinitely
for sparing me from
your point of view hyperbole,
but at the same time, I regret
that you also came to tell me
that you have decided to leave again.
You are as fidgety as no
other man I have ever known,
tell me at least where you're going.
I'm going to Franeker.
So I'll lose you once again.
Ten years ago, when you
left Breda, you promised me
that you wouldn't ever
have left me without your news,
but instead you've been
quiet for ten years.
And I waited in vain for your
texts on mechanics and those
about algebra, and I'm still waiting
because you haven't written them.
Your mind was created
suitable for mathematics
and I think you're doing
and talents in disciplines
that don't suit you.
My mind is attracted by mathematics,
I've repeated that to
you many times, I think,
only because it is executed,
in my opinion , with procedures
capable of demonstrating
metaphysical truths,
that usually reached
using philosophical demonstrations.
It is precisely your certainty
apply it to metaphysics...
It is possible. Have you read
what I demonstrated in this sheet?
The rays, as you see, hit the
lens in a parallel position,
the lens deviates them
and they converge
perfectly at one point.
Everything appears clear,
simple, evident.
bring the same clarity
and simplicity in
philosophical demonstrations
using only mathematical procedures?
My dear friend, perhaps you
that philosophy does not only
consider what material
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