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    Renaissance · English

    The Method, Meditations, and Philosophy of Descartes

    René Descartes

    The Method, Meditations, and Philosophy of Descartes, by René Descartes (1596–1650), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.

    Chapters
    42
    Variants
    42
    Genre
    Philosophy
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Descartes, Special Introductionprose
    2. 02Introduction, I.: Descartes—His Life and Writings.prose
    3. 03II.: Philosophy in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Preceding Descartes.prose
    4. 04III.: The Cogito Ergo Sum — Its Nature and Meaning.prose
    5. 05IV.: Cogito Ergo Sum — Objections to the Principle.prose
    6. 06V.: The Guarantee of the Principle.prose
    7. 07VI.: The Criterion of Truth.prose
    8. 08VII.: The Ego and the Material World.prose
    9. 09VIII.: Innate Ideas.prose
    10. 10IX.: Malebranche (1638-1715)prose
    11. 11X.: Spinoza (1632-1677) — Relations to Descartes.prose
    12. 12XI.: Development of Cartesianism in the Line of Spinoza—Omnis Determinatio Est Negatio.prose
    13. 13XII.: Hegelian Criticism — The Ego and the Infinite.prose
    14. 14Prefatory Note by the Author.prose
    15. 15Discourse on Method, Part I.prose
    16. 16Part II.prose
    17. 17Part III.prose
    18. 18Part IV.prose
    19. 19Part V.prose
    20. 20Part VI.prose
    21. 21to the very sage and illustrious the DEAN AND DOCTORS OF THE SACRED FACULTY OF THEOLOGY OF PARIS.prose
    22. 22Preface to the Reader.prose
    23. 23Synopsis of the Six Following Meditations.prose
    24. 24Meditation I.: Of the Things on Which We May Doubt.prose
    25. 25Meditation II.: Of the Nature of the Human Mind; and that It is More Easily Known than the Body.prose
    26. 26Meditation III.: Of God: That He Exists.prose
    27. 27Meditation IV.: Of Truth and Error.prose
    28. 28Meditation V.: Of the Essence of Material Things; and, Again, of God; That He Exists.prose
    29. 29Meditation VI.: Of the Existence of Material Things, and of the Real Distinction Between the Mind and Body of Man.prose
    30. 30Letter of the Author to the French Translator of the Principles of Philosophy Serving for a Preface.prose
    31. 31to the most serene princess, ELISABETH, Eldest Daughter of Frederick, King of Bohemia, Count Palatine, and Elector of thprose
    32. 32The Principles of Philosophy, Part I.: Of the Principles of Human Knowledge.prose
    33. 33Part II.: Of the Principles of Material Things.prose
    34. 34Part III.: Of the Visible World.prose
    35. 35Part IV.: Of the Earth.prose
    36. 36Appendix: Reasons Which Establish the Existence of God, and the Distinction Between the Mind and Body of Man, Disposed Iprose
    37. 37Postulates.prose
    38. 38Axioms or Common Notions.prose
    39. 39Appendix: Reasons Which Establish the Existence of God, and the Distinction Between the Mind and Body of Man, Disposed Iprose
    40. 40Appendix: Reasons Which Establish the Existence of God, and the Distinction Between the Mind and Body of Man, Disposed Iprose
    41. 41Appendix: Reasons Which Establish the Existence of God, and the Distinction Between the Mind and Body of Man, Disposed Iprose
    42. 42Appendix: Reasons Which Establish the Existence of God, and the Distinction Between the Mind and Body of Man, Disposed Iprose