Descartes Method Of Doubt
Ben Stone
Philosophy Final
12/14/15
1. Descartes’ Method of Doubt basically means to doubt absolutely everything that one could not be absolutely certain of. He has this method because you have all these thoughts in your head that you doubt and are not completely certain about and since you doubt all these things you also doubt your existence but since you doubt your existence, this means you have consciousness and actually do exist. Your beliefs are all connected in a foundation of knowledge and if you were to destroy a belief in the center of that foundation, you would have to eliminate the other beliefs that are supported by that original belief. Plato would agree with this because of his argument of recollection. They both have this idea that your mind is …show more content…
To understand Immanuel Kant, you must first understand Descartes. Descartes believes that God created the outside world so we can see experiences and came up with the ontological argument which is an argument based on the meaning of term “God”. “The ontological argument claims that the idea that God doesn’t exist is just as absurd as the idea that a four-sided triangle exists. According to the ontological argument, we can tell that the claim that God doesn’t exist is false without having to look into it in any detail.” (http://www.existence-of-god.com/ontological-argument.html). Kant would argue with Descartes because you have never experienced God and you can’t think of things in them self because you will always imagine yourself experiencing it. He believes that our world is only a world of experience. Anselm does not accept Kant’s views because you can’t define tangible things as existing because you can imagine them not existing. He thinks you can imagine any physical and tangible thing not existing in the world but you can’t imagine God not existing in any world. He says that God’s nature is to exist so you can’t talk about God without existence just like a triangle can’t have four
Philosophy Final
12/14/15
1. Descartes’ Method of Doubt basically means to doubt absolutely everything that one could not be absolutely certain of. He has this method because you have all these thoughts in your head that you doubt and are not completely certain about and since you doubt all these things you also doubt your existence but since you doubt your existence, this means you have consciousness and actually do exist. Your beliefs are all connected in a foundation of knowledge and if you were to destroy a belief in the center of that foundation, you would have to eliminate the other beliefs that are supported by that original belief. Plato would agree with this because of his argument of recollection. They both have this idea that your mind is …show more content…
To understand Immanuel Kant, you must first understand Descartes. Descartes believes that God created the outside world so we can see experiences and came up with the ontological argument which is an argument based on the meaning of term “God”. “The ontological argument claims that the idea that God doesn’t exist is just as absurd as the idea that a four-sided triangle exists. According to the ontological argument, we can tell that the claim that God doesn’t exist is false without having to look into it in any detail.” (http://www.existence-of-god.com/ontological-argument.html). Kant would argue with Descartes because you have never experienced God and you can’t think of things in them self because you will always imagine yourself experiencing it. He believes that our world is only a world of experience. Anselm does not accept Kant’s views because you can’t define tangible things as existing because you can imagine them not existing. He thinks you can imagine any physical and tangible thing not existing in the world but you can’t imagine God not existing in any world. He says that God’s nature is to exist so you can’t talk about God without existence just like a triangle can’t have four