
Act 2 editorial illustration · not a historical record
THE QUESTION IN THIS SCENE
What makes a mind and a self persist?
The Latin Meditations appears in Paris and places the mind-body distinction at center stage.
Descartes — The thinking self and the extended body
If every bodily fact is doubted, does the thinking self remain, and could it exist without the body?
Same place, another question: Paris
Why this scene is pinned here
The source supports the event-place association, not the truth of the philosophy or a line of influence.
René Descartes
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §1 Intellectual Biography; 1641 publication of Meditations
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