Meditations And Other Metaphysical Writings (Penguin Classics)One of the foundation stones of modern philosophy Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certaintyeven to deny those things that seemed most self evident. In his Meditations of 1641, and in the Objections and Replies that were included with the original publication, he set out to dismantle and then reconstruct the idea of the individual self and its existence. In doing so, Descartes developed a language of subjectivity that has