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Descartes’s Meditations is one of the most important works in the rationalist tradition of philosophy. Rationalism is characterised by a belief that all the major problems of philosophy — and perhaps all the major intellectual problems of the world, full stop — can be answered by the application of rational thought alone.
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© 2002 Julian Baggini
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Baggini, J. (2002). René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (1641). In: Philosophy: Key Texts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1370-8_3
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