Descartes’ Flash of Insight: Freedom, the Objective World, and the Reality of the Self

The European Legacy 27 (3-4):251-268 (2022)
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This re-examination of the cogito is prompted by a substantive question which has not previously been identified: the distinguishability of the I or self. Consequently, its force has not been addre...

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