Mind, Individual, Species

The Meditations is best known for two accomplishments--the establishment of a Certainty, and the detachment of Mind from Body.  But, as the contrast, previously discussed, with Thus Spoke Zarathustra illuminates, a third is Atomization, the product of which is a singularity that requires a proof of the existence of a deity to connect with any other existent.  Thus, that Mind is equivalent to Soul for Descartes is a reminder that the Meditations is at the service of a traditional Theological project--saving the individual Soul from a species that, according to Genesis 3, is cursed.