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What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes´ use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes´ philosophy. First focusing on The World and the Discourse on Method , this volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences; between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the imagination, the will, and the passions.

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1. Introduction 2. The Fable in The World and the Discourse 3. Fable-structure or -logic 4. Method 5. Imagination 6. Conclusion

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James Griffith is Assistant Professor of Political Thought and Philosophy at Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, Slovakia

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