This is a guide to the full range of Descartes`s major works and ideas, including his hugely important Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy.

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Acknowledgements		ix
Abbreviations		xi
Introduction		1
1 Method		6
1.1 Criticism of the syllogism		6
1.2 Geometric method		9
1.3 Intuition		11
1.4 Deduction		13
1.5 Enumeration		16
1.6 Analysis and synthesis		19
1.7 A priori and a posteriori demonstration		23
1.8 The method of doubt		24
2 Mind and Idea		29
2.1 `I think, therefore I am`		29
2.2 What am I?		33
2.3 Thought		35
2.4 Ideas		38
2.5 The mind or soul		39
2.6 The mind is better known than the body		41
3 Metaphysics		45
3.1 Theory of distinction		45
3.2 Substance and mode		49
3.3 Attributes		55
3.4 Abstraction and universals		57
3.5 Degrees of reality		59
3.6 The causal adequacy principle		62
4 Religion		66
4.1 Faith and reason		66
4.2 The causal arguments for God`s existence		69
4.3 Objections to the causal arguments		74
4.4 The ontological argument for God`s existence		78
4.5 The immortality of the soul		83
4.6 The Eucharist		85
5 Knowledge		91
5.1 Scientia		91
5.2 Formal and material falsity		92
5.3 God`s non-deceiving nature		95
5.4 The source of error		96
5.5 How to avoid error and God`s guarantee		99
5.6 Proof of an external world		101
5.7 The Cartesian Circle		103
6 Physics		109
6.1 The condemnation of Galileo		109
6.2 Final causes and substantial forms		114
6.3 The rejection of final causes		114
6.4 The rejection of Atomism		117
6.5 Space and place		119
6.6 The nature of motion		123
6.7 The laws of motion		126
6.8 The earth`s motion		129
7 Human Nature		131
7.1 The Conceptual Argument		131
7.2 The Divisibility/Indivisibilty Argument		133
7.3 The mind-body problem		135
7.4 The Sailor in a Ship Argument		138
7.5 The modes of mind-body union		140
7.6 Elizabeth`s (and Gassendi`s) mistake		143
7.7 The mind-body relation		144
7.8 Human life		146
8 Sensations, Passions and Morality		151
8.1 The physiology of sensation		151
8.2 Three grades of sensory response		154
8.3 Passions		155
8.4 The provisional moral code		160
8.5 Generosite		163
8.6 Conclusion		165
Notes		167
Bibliography		175
Index		179

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