For Descartes‚ you cannot be sure of one’s existence or its reality so first you must doubt it. But as we see through his work Meditations on First Philosophy‚ we are presented by his loosening grip on his own sanity since he had continued to doubt and never accepting to believe in other realities but only is certain of his own existence. Descartes gave the awareness that to doubt is to know and to know is to doubt. He had known that he exists because he can think‚ and he cannot doubt that he can
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Descartes’ Mind-Body Dualism It can be very simple. Just look at the world and ask yourself‚ “Is everything material? Or are there things in the world that are not material‚ but I still know actually exist?” Then‚ ask yourself a second question‚ “How can I reach at a definition so that the two cannot be mistaken for one another other?” Descartes defined every material thing as having an extension‚ which is another way of saying it occupies space. Furthermore‚ those material things cannot share that
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In the First Meditation‚ Descartes goes into depth on reflecting about the number of falsehoods and deceptions that he’s fallen for during his lifetime. This causes him to question everything that he has perceived as true or real‚ even something as concrete as the senses. It’s here where he attempts to deconstruct all the perceived notions and build a new foundation based on absolute truths‚ things that cannot be doubted. However‚ the most polarizing topic‚ and the one that I shall be arguing for
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taught in the Holy Scriptures‚ and‚ on the other hand‚ that we must believe the Holy Scriptures because they come from God “(Descartes 1). He then doubts himself if god does really exist. Through examining his thoughts‚ he ends up believing that the idea of God exists because of his innate idea of God which has to be God who “is the cause of this idea”(Descartes 25). Descartes then explains more in depth saying‚ “I have no choice but to conclude that the mere fact of my existing is and of there being
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The mind-body debate works to answer the following question: What is the bond between the mind and body? Descartes claims: “the fact that I can vividly and clearly think of one thing apart from another assures me that the two things are distinct from one another - that is‚ that they are two.” This notion of the mind and body claims humans to have both physical properties (the body and brain) and mental properties (the mind). The physical properties being: sensation‚ reproduction‚ movement‚ etc.
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Descartes reminisces on what he knows is certain. He opens this review by first being doubtful of all bodies‚ but absolutely certain of his existence since he needs existence to think and doubt. Therefore‚ if he is anything‚ it is that he is a “thinking thing” with all these capabilities to help him make sense of the world. Descartes thus is certain that he is a “thinking thing” with the ability to will‚ understand and imagine in addition to doubt. He states that this is a clear and distinct perception
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1. Descartes’ conceivability argument is that if something is conceivable. Then it is logically possible to exist and that if something is not conceivable‚ then it is not logically possible. Through this reasoning Descartes’ states that since it is possible to conceive that he could exist mentally without a physical form‚ it is therefore logically possible that one could exist without their body. Descartes’ logic‚ though valid in its presentation‚ does not provide the reasoning that perhaps‚ at least
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In other words‚ can mental events explain the causation of physical events even though they are two separate substances. There will always be the problem of trying to explain “how your mind affects your body and how your body affects your mind” (Descartes 329.) A modern day response to substance
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