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Hamlet
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Othello
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Romeo and Juliet
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Julius Caesar
Table of Contents
Summary
Context
List of Characters
Overall Analysis and Themes
First Meditation: skeptical doubts
Second Meditation, Part 1: cogito ergo sum and sum res cogitans
Second Meditation, Part 2: the wax argument
Third Meditation, Part 1: clear and distinct perceptions and Descartes' theory of ideas
Third Meditation, Part 2: Descartes' theory of ideas (cont.)
Third Meditation, part 3: the existence of God and the Cartesian Circle
Fourth Meditation, Part 1: God is no deceiver
Fourth Meditation, Part 2: Will, intellect, and the possibility of error
Fifth Meditation: "The essence of material things, and the existence of God considered a second time"
Sixth Meditation, Part 1: Cartesian body
Sixth Meditation, Part 2: Mind-body dualism
Sixth Meditation, Part 3: Primary and secondary qualities
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