Contents

GENERAL PREFACE   ix

SHORT TITLES AND ABBREVIATIONS   xix

Earliest Works

Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect   3

EDITORIAL PREFACE   3

THE TREATISE   7

Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being   46

EDITORIAL PREFACE   46

A SHORT OUTLINE OF THE TREATISE   53

THE TREATISE   59

Letters: August 1661–August 1663

EDITORIAL PREFACE   159

LETTERS 1-16   163-216

The Expositor of Descartes

EDITORIAL PREFACE   221

Parts I and II of Descartes’ “Principles of Philosophy”   224

Appendix Containing Metaphysical Thoughts   299

Letters: July 1664–September 1665

EDITORIAL PREFACE   349

LETTERS 17-28   352-397

The Metaphysical Moralist

EDITORIAL PREFACE   401

Ethics   408

Glossary-Index

PREFACE   621

ENGLISH-LATIN-DUTCH   624

LATIN-DUTCH-ENGLISH   661

DUTCH-LATIN-ENGLISH   702

PROPER NAMES   717

BIBLICAL AND TALMUDIC REFERENCES   719

REFERENCE LIST   721