 On these grounds, one might feel justified in setting aside the Meditations in an examination of Descartes’ ethics. In fact, though, the Meditations pursues, in a theoretical context, an inquiry that is closely related to ethics: the proper disposition of the will. (For readings of the Meditations as supporting the development of virtue, see Naaman-Zauderer 2010; Shapiro 2005, 2013.)