The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes
A collection of three of Descatres philosophical works: the Discourse of Method, the Meditations, and selections from his Principles of Philosophy.
The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes, translated from the Original Texts, with a new introductory Essay, Historical and Critical by John Veitch and a Special Introduction by Frank Sewall (Washington: M. Walter Dunne, 1901).
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- Author: Réné Descartes
- Translator: John Veitch
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Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION.
- PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR.
- DISCOURSE ON METHOD.
- PART I.
- PART II.
- PART III.
- PART IV.
- PART V.
- PART VI.
- MEDITATIONS on THE FIRST PHILOSOPHY in which THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, AND THE REAL DISTINCTION OF MIND AND BODY, ARE DEMONSTRATED.
- MEDITATION I.: Of the Things on Which We May Doubt.
- MEDITATION II.: Of the Nature of the Human Mind; and that It is More Easily Known 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, Again, of God; That He Exists.
- MEDITATION VI.: Of the Existence of Material Things, and of the Real Distinction Between the Mind and Body of Man.
- LETTER OF THE AUTHOR TO THE FRENCH TRANSLATOR OF THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY SERVING FOR A PREFACE.
- THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY.
- PART I.: Of the Principles of Human Knowledge.
- PART II.: Of the Principles of Material Things.
- PART III.: Of the Visible World.
- PART IV.: Of the Earth.
- APPENDIX: REASONS WHICH ESTABLISH THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE MIND AND BODY OF MAN, DISPOSED IN GEOMETRICAL ORDER.
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