Method is defined as the rules by which our powers of intuition and deduction are guided in an orderly way. Descartes was able to come up with is Discourse because of his rigid and highly scholastic education. From the young age of ten, Descartes attended one of the most famous schools in Europe; a Jesuit college called La Fleche. There he studied under some of the most learned men in the world. He studied the verbal arts: rhetoric, dialectic, and logic; as well as the mathematical arts: arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. Once Descartes had complete his education his found himself of doubts and errors that he thought of himself not as educated but as ignorant. He learned all of the same subjects that the other students were learning and he also read through any book he could get his hands on concer

It indicated that the power of judging well and of distinguishing the true from the false - which is what we properly call 'good sense' or 'reasoning' - is naturally equal in all men, and consequently that the diversity of our opinions does not arise because some of us are more reasonable than others but solely because we direct our thoughts along different paths and do not attend to the same things. For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well.

Descartes was a gifted man who through a school education, traveling and a commitment to books became the father of modern philosophy. He used his experiences and knowledge to create his Discourse on the Method and good sense and reasoning are part one of his Discourse.

I did not, however, cease to value the exercises done in the Schools. I knew that the languages learned there are necessary for understanding the works of the ancients; that the charm of fables awakens the mind, with the memorable deeds and histories uplift it and help to shape one's judgement if they are read with discretion; that reading books is like having a conversation with the most distinguished men of past ages-indeed, a rehearsed conversation in which these authors reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.

Descartes was a smart man because he choose to educate himself. He felt that he was more fortunate to have followed a certain path in his life that lead him to reflections and maxims, which

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