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Meditations on First Philosophy2013

by René Descartes

<p><i>Meditations on First Philosophy </i>(1641)—full titles<i> Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated—</i>is a philosophical treatise by French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. 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 &#8220;yesterday.&#8221; The author rejects all belief in things that are not absolutely certain and then attempts to establish what can be absolutely certain.</p>

Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)—full titles Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated—is a philosophical treatise by French philosopher...

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