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Essay Archive - Critical Summary: Descartes' Meditations I, II, and VI
Critical Summary: Descartes' Meditations I, II, and VI.
In his First, Second, and Sixth Meditations, Descartes outlines and carries
out part of his plan in search of the indubitable. With the proposal of an
"evil genius" and the noted fallibility of the senses, he casts potential
doubt on virtually all fundamental knowledge (Meditation I). Then he
proposes that the only knowable fundamental truth is the fact that "I"
exist (Meditation II). Finally, after systematically building up higher-
level indubitable truths from that fundamental, he details the differences
and interactions between the mind a....
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