
Descartes's Soul | Prof. Jorge Secada
The Thomistic Institute
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The First Meditation on God and the Soul
Meditations on first philosophy, that God would be an object of first philosophy is no issue. People at the time would have been very happy with that. If you read Suarez, the soul is not part of the philosophy. The main purpose of skepticism is to lead the mind away from sensation. Descartes didn't like Forbes in Angles; he wasn't prejudiced fully. He never really concedes much to Hobbes.
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