Table of Contents
I. The Genesis of the Work
1. At the Heart of the Meditations
2. The Trunk
3. The Roots
4. Descartes’ Project
II. The Structure of the Work
III. An Analysis of the Work
1. Doubt, the Indubitable, and What Is True
1.1. Doubt as a Method
1.2. The Object of Doubt
1.3. To Doubt the Undoubtable
2. The Existence and Nature of One’s Self
2.1. The Existence of One’s Self (That I Exist)
2.2. The Nature of the Self
2.3. That the Mind is More Easily Known Than the Body
2.4. Thought
3. Ideas and the Existence of God
3.1. The Nature of Ideas
3.2. The Existence of God and the First a posteriori Proof
3.3. The Existence of God and the Second a posteriori Proof
3.4. The Idea of God
4. Error
4.1. God and Error
4.2. The Theory of Judgment
4.3. Freedom
4.4. The Ends of God
4.5. Some Observations of Method
5. Innatism: The Essence of Material Things and the Existence of God
5.1. Innatism
5.2. The Essence of Material Things
5.3. The a priori Proof of the Existence of God
5.4. The Existence of God and the Truth of Ideas
5.5. The Cartesian Circle
6. The Mind and the Body
6.1. Real Distinction
6.2. The Immortality of the Soul
6.3. The Existence of Material Things
6.4. Substantial Union
6.5. The Errors of Nature
IV. The Fate of the Work
1. God
2. Ideas
3. The Mind and the Body
Bibliography and Cited Works
Index of Names
