![]() I have now delayed it for so long that I have no excuse for going on planning to do it rather than getting to work. It looked like an enormous task, and I decided to wait until I was old enough to be sure that there was nothing to be gained from putting it off any longer. I realized that if I wanted to establish anything in the sciences that was stable and likely to last, I needed – just once in my life – to demolish everything completely and start again from the foundations. Some years ago I was struck by how many false things I had believed, and by how doubtful was the structure of beliefs that I had based on them. Published by Cambridge University Press.įIRST MEDITATION: On what can be called into doubt Source: Meditations on First Philosophy in which are demonstrated the existence of GodĪnd the distinction between the human soul and the body, by René Descartes, translated by John Cottingham. The distinction between the human soul and the body In which are demonstrated the existence of God and ![]() Rene Descartes 1639 Meditations on First Philosophy Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes ![]()
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