Six Metaphysical Meditations

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Author

Descartes, René, 1596-1650

Title

Six metaphysical meditations Wherein it is proved that there is a God and that mans mind is really distinct from his body

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Printed by B. G. for Benj. Tooke at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1680.

Credits

Jonathan Ingram, Thanks to Special Collections, Princeton University Library and Special Collections and Archives, Glucksman Library, University of Limerick for additional images, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

Subject

Descartes, René, 1596-1650

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70091

Release Date

February 20, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.THE TRANSLATORS Preface . TO THE READERS.
4. 4.The Contents.
5. 5.ERRATA.
6. 6.THE Metaphysical Meditations OF Renatus Des-Cartes , &c.
7. 7.Meditat. I. Of Things Doubtful.
8. 8.Meditat. II. Of the nature of Mans mind , and that ’tis easier proved to be then our body .
9. 9.Meditat. III. Of GOD, and that there is a God.
10. 10.Meditat. IV. Of Truth and Falshood.
11. 11.Meditat. V. Of the Essence of Things Material . And herein Again of God . And that he does Exist .
12. 12.Meditat. VI. Of Corporeal Beings , and Their Existence : As Also of the Real Difference, Between Mind and Body .
13. 13.ADVERTISEMENT CONCERNING THE OBJECTIONS.
14. 14.OBJECTIONS Made against the Foregoing MEDITATIONS , BY THE FAMOUS THOMAS HOBBS Of Malmesbury , WITH DES-CARTES’S ANSWERS .
15. 15.OBJECT. I. Against the First Meditation: Of things Doubtful. — ANSWER.
16. 16.OBJECT. II. Against the Second Meditation: Of the Nature of Mans Mind. — ANSWER.
17. 17.OBJECT. III. — ANSWER.
18. 18.OBJECT. IV. — ANSWER.
19. 19.OBJECT. V. Against the Third Meditation of God. — ANSWER.
20. 20.OBJECT. VI. — ANSWER.
21. 21.OBJECT. VII. — ANSWER.
22. 22.OBJECT. VIII. — ANSWER.
23. 23.OBJECT. IX. — ANSWER.
24. 24.OBJECT. X. — ANSWER.
25. 25.OBJECT. XI. — ANSWER.
26. 26.OBJECT. XII. Against the Fourth Meditation, Of Truth and Falshood. — ANSWER.
27. 27.OBJECT. XIII. — ANSWER.
28. 28.OBJECT XIV. Against the Fifth Meditation. Of the Essence of material things. — ANSWER.
29. 29.OBJECT. XV. Against the Sixth Meditation. Of the Existence of Material Beings. — ANSWER.
30. 30.The Last Objection. — ANSWER.
31. 31.Untitled

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