Many other matters respecting the attributes of God and my own nature or
mind remain for consideration; but I shall possibly on another occasion
resume the investigation of these. Now (after first noting what must be
done or avoided, in order to arrive at a knowledge of the truth) my
principal task is to endeavour to emerge from the state of doubt into
which I have these last days fallen, and to see whether nothing certain
can be known regarding material things.
Table of Contents
Note on the Translation
Editor's Preface
Selected Bibliography
MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY
Letter of Dedication
Preface to the Reader
Synopsis of the Following Six Meditations
MEDITATION ONE. Concerning Those Things That
Can Be Called into Doubt
MEDITATION TWO. Concerning the Nature of the
Human Mind. That It Is Better Known Than the Body
MEDITATION THREE. Concerning God, That He Exists
MEDITATION FOUR. Concerning the True and the False
MEDITATION FIVE. Concerning the Essence of
Material Things, and Again Concerning God, That He Exists
MEDITATION SIX. Concerning the Existence of
Material Things, and the Real Distinction
between Mind and Body