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    This week we had to read Rene Descartes FIRST MEDITATION: On what can be called into doubt. I really enjoyed this reading because it made me think a lot and dig deeper into what he was writing about and try to connect it with real life. After reading Descartes outside of class we a lot about dreams‚ our senses‚ being deceived‚ trust and doubting out beliefs. I found this reading very interesting because almost everyone who reads it can relate to it some way or another. The topic I felt had the most

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    After Descartes goes over what he has previously covered‚ including his proving that God exists and that God is perfect‚ he begins his fourth meditation. In this meditation‚ titled Truth and falsity‚ Descartes contemplates how he‚ Descartes makes mistakes if he is a product of this perfect being. First‚ he knows that God would not deceive him‚ since the will to deceive is a sign of weakness or hatred‚ and God’s perfection would not allow it. Second‚ if God created him‚ God is responsible for his

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    There are many parallels to be drawn between Descartes’ theory of skepticism and the movie The Truman Show. Firstly‚ just as Descartes becomes skeptical that the reality that he perceives is not the truth‚ Truman begins to question the world he inhabits after a series of events. This series of events includes seeing his father who he thought was dead‚ a voice on the radio narrating his every move‚ and everyone seemingly watching him in the town square‚ just to name a few. While he does not question

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    Descartes’s overall goal in Meditation one is to find certainty in a world full of deceit. To do this‚ he demolishes all of his prior knowledge to the foundations and rebuild. He is searching for one principle in life to be completely true no matter what. He is looking for that one certainty‚ that is free of any skepticism. Skepticism is like a nagging voice in the back of one’s mind‚ always telling them to doubt and question‚ to find everything that could be considered false. It makes one question

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    Rene Descartes was born in La Haye‚ Touraine‚ France in 1596 to mother Jeanne Brochard and father Joachim Descartes. At four days old‚ René was baptised in the Roman Catholic Church of Saint George in his home village. Before he was one year old‚ his mother died‚ leaving his father to send Rene and his two older siblings to live with their grandmother. When he was eight years old Rene was sent to school for seven years at the Jesuit college of Henri IV in La Flèche and became a boarder there at

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    René Descartes: "Father of Modern Mathematics" 1596-1650 December 13‚ 2004 René Descartes was born in La Haye‚ Touraine (France) in March of 1596 and died at Stockholm on February 11‚ 1650. René‚ the second of a family of two sons and one daughter‚ was sent to the Jesuit School at La Flêche at the early age of eight. Since he was of poor health he was permitted to lie in bed till late in the mornings‚ a custom which

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    Alec Shover Dr. Darrell Cosden Introduction to Philosophy PHL260 Section 2 Descartes Skepticism and the Matrix March 21‚ 2012 1197 Words Reality is something that has been debated among philosophers for centuries. Rene Descartes is one of these philosophers who has come up with a unique way of understanding reality. Descartes in Meditations on First Philosophy argues his method of doubt about the idea of skepticism and this is reflected in the Matrix when Neo chooses the

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    Descartes’ first meditation‚ his main objective is to present three skeptical arguments to bring doubt upon what he considers his basic beliefs. Descartes believes this to be an intricate part of his complete epistemological argument. Descartes skeptical arguments are not intended to be a denial of his basic beliefs. On the contrary‚ he uses these arguments to help prove one of his main theses‚ which is the existence of God. One of the main premises that Descartes uses in his proof for

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    tv show‚ a world full of lies- every person he met was an actor as for Christof’s world was the real world in which we live in today. Personally I would rather live in Christof’s world as it is the real world‚ a world of truth where we are constantly learning from our mistakes. As for in Truman’s worlds everything is staged and too script‚ there is no freedom to experience. TRUMEN’S WORLD No free will controlled innocent safe planned watched Emotions aren’t real SIMILARITIES Truman struggles

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    Descartes’ Second Meditation In Descartes’ Second Meditation the key philosophical idea of “I think‚ therefore I am” is introduced and thus begins a new age in western philosophy. Some of the arguments Descartes provide in order to support his claims are that in order to doubt anything‚ you must be able to think and if you think‚ you exist. Descartes brings up the point that there may be no physical world‚ along with that thought comes the doubt of anything else being real‚ which again

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