Question

What was Descartes’s purpose in writing Discourse on Method?

A.to criticize Church officials for their treatment of Galileo
B.to defend the Copernican theory
C.to describe a new way of thinking that could be relied on
D.to prove the value of Aristotelian logic

Answer 1

I would say c is the answer but im not 100% sure

Answer 2

Descartes wrote this book as argument over skepticism and he handled the problem of skepticism from three different point of view. Of course, the work is dedicated for the sake of truth and its search. Therefor, the correct answer is C.