Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies

Cover
......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Introductory essay......Page 9
General introduction :The Meditations and Cartesian Philosophy......Page 20
Chronology of Descartes' life and works......Page 41
Further reading......Page 43
Note on the text and the translation......Page 45
Meditations on First Philosophy......Page 49
Dedicatory letter to the Sorbonne......Page 51
Preface to the reader......Page 54
Synopsis of the following six Meditations......Page 57
What can be called into doubt......Page 60
The nature of the human mind, and how it is better known than the body......Page 64
The existence of God......Page 72
Truth and falsity......Page 85
The Essence of material things, and the existence of God considered a second time......Page 92
The existence of material things, and the real distinction between mind and body......Page 98
ON MEDITATION ONE......Page 111
ON MEDITATION TWO......Page 116
ON MEDITATION THREE
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ON MEDITATION FOUR......Page 138
ON MEDITATION FIVE......Page 143
ON MEDITATlON SIX......Page 155
Index......Page 165