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René Descartes›Meditations on First Philosophy›Full Text›Chapter 5

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Meditation V — Of the Essence of Material Things, and Again of God

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MEDITAT. V.

Of the Essence of Things Material. And herein Again of God. And that he does Exist.

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Meditation IV — Of Truth and Falsehood

Meditation VI — Of Corporeal Beings and the Distinction of Mind from Body

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Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes

1641

AuthorRené Descartes

Published1641

BranchesEpistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Ontology

Chapters6

Six meditations that reconstruct the foundations of knowledge from scratch. Descartes systematically doubts everything that can be doubted and discovers what cannot — beginning a tradition of epistemology-first philosophy that would dominate modern thought.

Chapters

1Meditation I — Of Things Doubtful

2Meditation II — Of the Nature of the Mind

3Meditation III — Of God, and that there is a God

4Meditation IV — Of Truth and Falsehood

5Meditation V — Of the Essence of Material Things, and Again of God

6Meditation VI — Of Corporeal Beings and the Distinction of Mind from Body