Reading Questions for Descartes’ Meditations
Meditation II (for Wed July 22th)
Descartes discovers that one thing is certain and beyond doubt.
1. What is the first thing/person Descartes proves the existence of? Why is this certain?
2. What is Descartes’ answer to the question, what kind of thing am I?
3. How is a thinking thing different from the wax he describes?
4. At the end of Meditation II has Descartes established that he has a body?
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