"I will confide to you that I have been working, for some time, on a great book – I don't even know if I won't die before I have written it – on philosophy, truth, history." These words were spoken by Martial Gueroult in 1957, in Royaumont, during the discussion on the method in the history of philosophy that would close the Descartes Congress. And he died, in fact, without having finished that book, which was to become one of the key elements of his work. Should we publish his manuscript, which is often only a first draft? We think so. The dianoematics has the mission of solving the problem of the philosophical validity of this history, reconciling the fact of the temporal becoming of philosophy with the extratemporal absoluteness of law that each philosophy claims. The problem is posed in all its magnitude: each philosophy believes itself to be the only true image of reality; and ye...read more