Book · 1641 · Nonfiction

Meditations on First Philosophy

Name: Meditations on First Philosophy
Author: Rene Descartes

Hackett Pub. Co. · 59 pages

★ 7.5 editorial score

Descartes sits by a fire and doubts everything, down to whether a demon feeds him the world. What survives is the thinking, and philosophy has argued from there ever since.

Genre

Philosophy

Subject

Epistemology Skepticism Reason Existence of God

Time

1641Depicts Scientific Revolution

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