Descartes resolves to doubt everything that can be doubted, finds the one certainty of his own thinking mind, and from there argues that God exists, cannot deceive, and guarantees whatever we clearly and distinctly perceive. William Molyneux’s English version of 1680 adds the objections Thomas Hobbes raised against the meditations, Descartes’s answers to each, and a short account of the philosopher’s life.
The founding text of modern philosophy in a seventeenth-century English dress, with Hobbes as sparring partner. Download the free EPUB.