RENÉ DESCARTES (1596-1650)

 

 

Biography

 

Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)

 

Meditation I

Six Doubts

 

Meditation II

Cogito Argument

Mind

Body

Descartes on Substance, Principal Attributes and Modes 

   

Meditation III

Truth and Clear and Distinct Perceptions

"Trademark" (or Cosmological) Argument for the Existence of God

Creation Argument for the Existence of God

God is not a Deceiver

Cartesian Circle 

 

Meditation IV

God and Human Error & Vindication of Clear and Distinct Perception

 

Meditation V

Essences

The Ontological Proof of God's existence

 

 

Meditation VI

Proof of the Existence of the External World

Proof of Distinction between Mind and Body (Cartesian Substance Dualism)

Mind-Body Union and Causal Interactionism