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Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy

Descartes · 1637

Canon spine row 60. Descartes — Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy. Era: 1637 / 1641. Lang: French / Latin.

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God & Work

What this book knows

Systematic doubt strips the mind to bedrock certainty—I think, therefore I am—then rebuilds knowledge on reason and a veracious God.

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Work: Present
Learning: Primary
Religion: Primary

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mind-and-cognition

Intuition is the undoubting conception of an unclouded and attentive mind, springing from the light of reason alone; each individual can mentally intuit that he exists and thinks.
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I cannot comprehend by imagination what the piece of wax is; it is the mind alone which perceives it.
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faith-and-doubt

I had long remarked that in practice it is sometimes necessary to adopt as above doubt opinions we discern to be highly uncertain.
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God is absolutely veracious and source of all light; it is plainly repugnant for him to deceive us or be cause of the errors to which we are consciously subject.
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self-and-identity

It is the faculty of will alone which I experience as so great I cannot conceive a more ample one; it is chiefly my will which leads me to discern I bear a similitude of Deity.
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In destroying opinions I judged ill-founded, I made observations and acquired experience which I availed myself of in the establishment of more certain ones.
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