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René Descartes · Early Modern · Philosophy
Early Modern · Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy
by René Descartes. Six meditations use radical doubt to investigate certainty, the mind-body distinction, God, and the external world.
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- Date
- 1641
- Origin
- France
- Era
- Early Modern
- Genre
- Philosophy
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Challenging
- Length
- Medium
- Collection
- The Western Canon
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Why it matters
Six meditations use radical doubt to investigate certainty, the mind-body distinction, God, and the external world.
This work is included on the basis of great books. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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