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Meditations on First Philosophy

Disciplines:
epistemology
metaphysics

Summary

René Descartes's systematic philosophical work using methodological doubt to establish foundations of knowledge — cogito ergo sum, mind-body dualism, and proofs of God's existence.

Core Contribution

Six meditations moving from radical doubt to certainty: only the thinking thing is indubitable; God exists and is not a deceiver; clear and distinct perceptions are true; mind and body are distinct substances.

Historical Influences

René Descartes

Intellectual Lineage

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Allied Works

Discourse on Method An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Critique of Pure Reason

Contemporaries & Peers

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Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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