Objections to the Meditations and Descartes’s Replies

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4、uly2006Lastamended:November2007ContentsFirstObjections(Caterus)andDescartes’sreplies1CanGodcauseGodtoexist?....................................................3InferringGod’sexistencefromhisessence.............................................10‘Proving’theexistenceofalion........................

5、............................14SecondObjections(mainlyMersenne)andDescartes’sReplies18ThecauseofourideaofGod.....................................................20Twochallengesconcerningbasiccertainty.............................................25CanGodlie?........................................

6、......................26Twomoreobjections..........................................................31ObjectionsandRepliesRenéDescartesMethodsofpresentingresults.....................................................34A‘geometrical’argumentforGod’sexistenceandthesoul’sdistinctnessfromthebody.......

7、...........36ThirdObjections(Hobbes),andDescartes’sReplies42FirstMeditation:‘Onwhatcanbecalledintodoubt’.......................................42SecondMeditation,‘Thenatureofthehumanmind’.....................................