 The best-known expression of Descartes’ ethical views is the “provisional moral code” (une morale par provision) that appears in Part Three of Discourse on the Method. Some have read this as a reliable statement of Descartes’ considered position, but this is consistent neither with the content of the Discourse itself nor with that of his later writings. (For detailed discussions of the “provisional morality,” see Carraud 1997; Cimakasky and Polansky 2012; Marshall 1998, 2003.)