The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief in things that are not absolutely certain, and then tries to establish what can be known for sure.

Meditations on First Philosophy, a treatise by the French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650), first published in 1641, that set forth a new …

I have always been of the opinion that the two questions re-specting God and the Soul were the chief of those that ought to be determined by help of Philosophy rather than of Theology; for …

In his 1641 Meditations appeared, setting out the metaphysical underpinnings of his physical theories; these were accompanied by objections written by contemporary philosophers, and …

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, published in Latin in 1641, is one of the most widely studied philosophical texts of all time, and inaugurates many of the key themes that have …

This response was to be his Meditations on First Philosophy, completed in the spring of 1640—but not published until August, 1641. Attached to the Meditations were sets of …

May 9, 2024 · René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) is one of the most influential works in Western philosophy. In this text, Descartes seeks to establish a foundation …

May 27, 2022 · First published in Latin, the book is made up of six meditations written as if Descartes had meditated for six days; each meditation refers to the last one as "yesterday."

"Meditations on First Philosophy," published in 1641, is a seminal work by French philosopher René Descartes that marks a pivotal moment in Western philosophy.

Descartes’s Meditations is one of the most important works in the rationalist tradition of philosophy. Rationalism is characterised by a belief that all the major problems of philosophy …