Background -- Explanation and summary of main arguments -- Meditation I: About the things we may doubt -- Meditation II: Of the nature of the human mind and that it is easier to know than the body -- Meditation III: Of God that He exists -- Meditation IV: Of truth and error -- Meditation V: Of the essence of material things and once more of God that He exists -- Meditation VI: Of the existence of material things and of the real distinction between the soul and the body of man -- Critical themes -- Objections and replies -- Certainty and doubt -- Dualism -- The existence of God -- Rationalism vs. empiricism -- Foundationalism and the Cartesian circle.
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Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650. Meditationes de prima philosophia