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DISCOURSE ON METHOD AND MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY

by Rene Descartes
Translated by Donald A. Cress
© 1998 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Table of Contents:

Discourse on Method:

• Note on the Translation
• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three
• Part Four
• Part Five
• Part Six

Meditations on First Philosophy In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction between the Soul and the Body Are Demonstrated:

• Note on the Translation
• Letter of Dedication
• Preface to the Reader
• Synopsis of the Following Six Meditations
• Meditation One:  Concerning Those Things That Can Be Called Into Doubt
• Meditation Two:  Concerning the Nature of the Human Mind:  That It Is Better Known Than the Body
• Meditation Three:  Concerning God, That He Exists
• Meditation Four:  Concerning the True and the False
• Meditation Five:  Concerning the Essence of Material Things, and Again Concerning God, That He Exists
• Meditation Six:  Concerning the Existence of Material Things, and the Real Distinction Between Mind and Body