Rene Descartes : The Father Of God

     On the journey to find truth to base all thought upon, Descartes explains his first step in doing so. “Never accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgment than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.”(Kolak, Pg.228). Assuming that everything you see is fictitious, Descartes believed he had no senses at all; “body, shape, extension, motion, and place are unreal.”(Weissman, Pg.23). Our senses have failed us all at one point or another in our lives, so why use the senses as a base for thought? The most famous quote and philosophy by Descartes in history ever, “Je pense, donc je suis, cogito ergo sum” (Durant, Pg.639). “I think, therefore I am” was the first step towards a basis to understand truth, and leaning away from truth through the senses.

As he attempted to continue his adventures his reasoning for many things became evident. There

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In Baron Reeds, “A New Argument for Skepticism,” a new idea is brought to light to agree with the argument for skepticism. Usually, skeptical arguments require knowledge to be

In his Meditations, Rene Descartes attempts to prove the existence and reality of himself and things external to himself. In order to fulfill such a feat, Descartes decides to doubt all that he knows, for he knows not whether that can be relied upon. He doubts his knowledge for three main reasons.

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René Descartes was a French philosopher that firmly believed in meditation and reflecting inside himself. Descartes’ was ultimately searching for something pure that he could find no doubt in. He uses the metaphor of rebuilding a house. He decides he needs to tear down the old house of all the knowledge he thought he knew to be true and rebuild it consisting of only knowledge without doubt. In order to build a foundation without any doubt Descartes’ needed to use skepticism or the Cartesian doubt, a systematic process of being skeptical about the truth of a belief, to secure what he was searching for.

The article talks about the ridiculousness among skeptic philosophers. Based on the argument that the writer brings out, he argues that most skeptic philosophers do not seem to hold a single ground on most of the issues that they address. According to him most of them hold different grounds and they have different answers each time they are made to explain a certain phenomenon and why it happened. The author goes on to give the example of Hume who was a skeptical philosopher who thinks that although philosophy helps to explain things that cannot be explained and helps to protect the philosopher from being considered uneducated and ignorant, sometimes what they explain fails to add up with what our sense tells us could be the truth. It is because of this conflict that at times, philosophers tend to give

Descartes was a noble man and tried very hard to see things in a different light from everyone else. In doing this he came up with four methods for viewing ideas. His first method is to remain faithful to the laws and customs of his country and his religion. In doing this he first

After feeling extreme dissatisfaction with the education he received Descartes began to castoff the ideas and notions that came from Aristotelian philosophy for in his observance they were unviable. Consequently, this lead Descartes on a journey so that he may gain knowledge. Descartes use skeptical doubt and four rules during his journey in search for knowledge and a more viable method for gaining

In part six we see that Descartes has a bit of a God complex. In paragraph two he reveals what his goals are for his new science, which is human comfort, less pain, improved health, and immortality. Descartes does deserve some credit; with his complex math and new science we can see some of his goals came to light as time moved forward. We now have additional comfort, including: refrigeration, air conditioning, cars and computers. Health technology has made leaps since Descartes’ time with cures to many diseases and people have a longer life expectancy now. But we must consider if this is a correlation or a cause and effect. We must consider how much influence Descartes really had on these matters? Was he brilliant or just another eccentric

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Descartes Meditations is said to be the beginning of Western Philosophy. His writings are still greatly referred to to this day, and he is most famous for his quote “cogito ergo sum” which translates to “I think, therefore I am.” Each of Descartes’ meditations are followed by objections from other theologists and philosophers, and thereon followed by replies from Descartes. Some objections are made stronger than others, for example, Thomas Hobbes, and it could be doubted whether or not Descartes truly was able to successfully counter Hobbes’ objections. Hobbes wrote the third set of objections on all six of Descartes’ meditations, and in some cases making multiple objections within one meditation.

How many times have you said, “No way, I do not believe it!” It is our natural tendency not to believe in something that we have not seen with our own eyes or experienced it personally. There is a saying, “seeing is believing” which has led us to a world full of skeptics. We want proof so we are not gullible fools. Skepticism, or scepticism, as it was spelled back in the ancient times, was pondered by philosophers who tried unsuccessfully to figure out the thought process and how we gain knowledge. Philosophers gave deep thought to determine how we arrive at such true beliefs and knowledge of the external world. Three such philosophers were Rene Descartes, David Hume and Christopher Grau. Rene Descartes was a French philosopher in the early 1600’s; David Hume was a Scottish Philosopher in the 1700’s, and Grau an American philosopher Professor born in 1970. The timeline s important because philosophical views have evolved over time. All three men were from different eras, but they each explored, argued, and addressed the topic of skepticism from their philosophical view. This proves that they take the subject of skepticism seriously, just as we should too. There is good reason to believe that a human’s knowledge of the external world results from both a posteriori knowledge acquired through sensory experience and a priori knowledge which is innate. Descartes, Hume, and Grau through their personal views and skeptical

The implication of philosophical scepticism is that, rationally speaking, we can believe anything or nothing. This highlights the huge gulf between philosophical scepticism and ordinary