Rene Descartes’ MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY, Meditation 2, Part 1

Rene Descartes' classic philosophical work, Meditations on First Philosophy, is a participative exercise in thinking. Join one of history's great philosophical minds in considering the nature of the world and how we think about it.

Meditation 2, building on the foundation of systematic doubt practiced in Meditation 1, is subtitled, "Of the nature of the human mind; and that it is more easily known than the body." Although the phrase does not occur in the Meditations, it is here that we find the explanation of Descartes' famous idea, Cogito, ergo sum - I think, therefore I am. So long as I am doubting, experiencing, thinking, I cannot doubt that I exist. This Meditation also contains Descartes' famous musings on the piece of wax.

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