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Best books to learn Understanding Descartes, in order

Descartes is best approached through his method before his conclusions, or the famous 'cogito' arrives without its foundation. Start with an accessible guide to his project of rebuilding knowledge on certainty, then the Meditations themselves—methodical doubt leading to the cogito and mind-body dualism—then the critiques that followed, so you can see both why he's called the father of modern philosophy and where his system strains.

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