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The Method, Meditations, and Selections From the Principles of Descartes Tr. With a New Intr. Essay, by J. Veitch
The Method Meditations and Selections From the Principles of Descartes Tr With a New Intr Essay by J Veitch Author:René Descartes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE MEDITATIONS DESCARTES TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN AND COLLATED 1VITH THE FRENCH CONTENTS. L -- THE MEDITATIONS. Page Dedication, 81 Preface, 87 Synopsis Of The Meditations, 91 MEDITATION I. Of the Things of which we may Doubt, ... 97 MEDITATION II. Of the Nature of the Human Mind ; and that it is more easily known than the Body, .... 104 MEDITATION III. Of God : that he exists 115 MEDITATION IV. Of Truth and Error, 133 MEDITATION' V. Of the Essence of Material Things ; and, again, of God: that he exists, 143 MEDITATION VI. Of the Existence of Material Things, and of the Real Distinction between the Mind and Body of Man, . 151 II. -- THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY. Preface, 173 Dedication, 189 PART I. Of the Principles of Human Knowledge, . . . 193 PART II. Of the Principles of Material Things. Sects, i. to xxv., 232 PART III. Of the Visible World. Sects, i. to iii., . . .247 PART IV. Of the Earth. Sects, cixxxviii. to ccvii., . , 249 THE YERY SAGE AND ar. USTRIOUS DEAN AND DOCTORS OF THE SACRED FACULTY OF THEOLOGY OF PARIS. Gentlemen, The motive which impels me to present this Treatise to you is so reasonable, and, when you shall learn its design, I am confident that you also will consider that there is ground so valid for your taking it under your protection, that I can in no way better recommend it to you than by briefly stating the end which I proposed to myself in it. I have always been of opinion that the two questions respecting God and the Soul were the chief of those that ought to be determined by help of Philosophy rather than of Theology ; fo...« less