The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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Page 129
... inasmuch as if we consider the reasons of them well , I assure myself that they will be found to be so simple and so conformable to common sense , as to appear less extraordinary and less paradoxical than any others which may be held on ...
... inasmuch as if we consider the reasons of them well , I assure myself that they will be found to be so simple and so conformable to common sense , as to appear less extraordinary and less paradoxical than any others which may be held on ...
Page 196
... inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible , and the mind is entirely indivisible . For , as a matter of fact , when I consider the mind , that is to say , myself inasmuch as I am only a thinking thing , I cannot distinguish in ...
... inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible , and the mind is entirely indivisible . For , as a matter of fact , when I consider the mind , that is to say , myself inasmuch as I am only a thinking thing , I cannot distinguish in ...
Page 418
... inasmuch as it is excited in us by some good action on the part of him for whom we have it . For we are naturally impelled to love those who do the things which we esteem to be good , even though no good comes to us by so doing . In ...
... inasmuch as it is excited in us by some good action on the part of him for whom we have it . For we are naturally impelled to love those who do the things which we esteem to be good , even though no good comes to us by so doing . In ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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