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Six metaphysical meditations

Name: Six metaphysical meditations
Author: René Descartes

René Descartes, trans. William Molyneux

Read by Larry Wilson, Bryan Applegate, BrentPatrick and Kassandra Clever · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · Translated by William Molyneux

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Chapters

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01 - Of Things Doubtful. (11:14)
02 - Of the Nature of Mans Mind, and that ’tis easier Proved to Be then our Body (21:36)
03 - Of God, and that there Is a God. (39:08)
04 - Of Truth and Falshood. (20:19)
05 - Of the Essence of Things Material, and herein again of God, and that He does Exist. (16:42)
06 - Of Corporeal Beings and their Existence, as also of the Real Difference between Mind and Body. (35:50)

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