{"date":"February 11","id":"02-11","intro":["Descartes was slain through the eccentric whim of a queen who demanded that he tutor her in the freezing dawn in the dead of winter. His philosophy lives in this essay."],"minutes":30,"readings":[{"author":"René Descartes","end":20,"start":5,"volume":34,"work":"Discourse on Method"}],"slug":"february-11","status":"proofread","title":"The Queen Freezes Her Philosophy","url":"/harvard-classics/february-11/","words":6e3}