Meditations on First Philosophy

‘It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards…I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished’

In Descartes’s Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, the thinker rejects all his former beliefs in the quest for new certainties. Discovering his own existence as a thinking entity in the very exercise of doubt, he goes on to prove the existence of God, who guarantees…