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descartes (not essay just thoughts while helping a friend)
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Dave ...please comment on the following journal question....:) Descartes thinks that he has discovered something that cannot be doubted ( even thought this came after an attempt to doubt everything possible). Say what it is that Descartes thinks we cannot doubt, and explain in your own words why he thinks we cannot doubt it. What might we take from this on a more personal (that is on a less philosophical and abstract) level? How might this influence our real lives? Descarte lived in the time of Galileo, and Galileo's new science is always in the background of Descartes method of doubt.(remember that , "method of doubt") Galileo raised the doubt that what we think we see we might not see at all. (for example)colors seemed to be more in the minds of men and women than in the objects themselves. and if we can be mistaken about something so seemingly clear as the color of an object, Descartes reasons "could we not be mistaken about much else besides?" this is where he decides to follow his method of doubt to its conclusion, and find at least one thing he cannot doubt. since experience gained from one's senses can be doubted, he chooses to use the REASONING OF HIS MIND as his only guide and also as his proof.(you would have to read the paper to find out how he comes to doubt everything and his reasonings behind it) but the one thing he cannot doubt at all is "his own existence" now, he is not talking about the physical body, for he has doubt that any "corporeal" (made out of matter) thing really exists.
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