Philosophical Essays and Correspondence (Descartes)

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CONTENTS
Introduction
	Descartes: Life and Times
	Principle of Selection for the Volume
	A Bibliographical Note on Descartes’s Main Works
	Selected Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources
	Brief Chronology of Descartes’s Life and Works
I. Early Works and Correspondence (to 1637)
	Preliminaries and Observations
	Rules for the Direction of the Mind
	To Mersenne, On the Eternal Truths
	The World or Treatise on Light [and Man]
	To Mersenne, About Galileo’s Condemnation
II. Discourse on the Method for Conducting One\'s Reason Well (1637)
	Author’s Preface
	Part One
	Part Two
	Part Three
	Part Four
	Part Five
	Part Six
III. Correspondence (1637–1641)
	To Silhon, Existence of God and of the Soul (March 1637)
	To Plempius for Fromondus, Atomism and Mechanism(October 3, 1637)
	To Vatier, On the Discourse (February 22, 1638)
	To Regius, Knowledge of the Infinite (May 24, 1640)
	To Colvius, On Augustine and the Cogito (November 14, 1640)
	To Mersenne, Immortality of the Soul (December 24, 1640)
	To Mersenne, The Aim of the Meditations and the Context for the Principles (December 31, 1640)
	To Mersenne, On J.-B. Morin’s Proof for the Existence of God (January 28, 1641)
IV. Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
	Letter of Dedication
	Preface to the Reader
	Synopsis of the Following Six Meditations
	Meditation One
	Meditation Two
	Meditation Three
	Meditation Four
	Meditation Five
	Meditation Six
V. Objections by Some Learned Men (1641)
	First Set of Objections
	Reply by the Author to the First Set of Objections
	Reply to the Second Set of Objections
	Third Set of Objections, by a Famous English Philosopher, with the Author’s Replies
	Fourth Set of Objections, by Antoine Arnauld, Doctor of Theology
	Reply to the Fourth Set of Objections
	Sixth Set of Objections
	Reply to the Sixth Set of Objections
VI. Correspondence (1641–1644)
	To Mersenne, Idea Defined and Discussed (July 1641)
	To Gibieuf, Ideas and Abstraction (January 19, 1642)
	To Buitendijck, Possibility of Doubting God’s Existence (1643)
	To Elisabeth, Primitive Notions (May 21 and June 28, 1643)
	To Mesland, On Freedom (May 2, 1644)
VII. Principles of Philosophy (1644–1647)
	Preface
	Part I. The Principles of Human Knowledge
	Part II. The Principles of Material Things
	Part III. The Visible World
	Part IV. The Earth
VIII. Late Works and Correspondence (1645 on)
	To Mesland, On Freedom (February 9, 1645)
	To Clerselier, Concerning Principles (June or July 1646)
	To the Marquis of Newcastle, About Animals (November 23, 1646)
	To Chanut, On Nicholas Cusa and the Infinite (June 6, 1647)
	Notes Directed Against a Certain Program (1648)
	To More, Replies to Objections (February 5, 1649)
	The Passions of the Soul (1649)
	The Search After Truth by the Light of Nature (1641?–1649?)
Index