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A beginner's guide to Descartes's Meditations
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A beginner's guide to Descartes's Meditations

Gareth Southwell

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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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