PHIL4406 Lecture Notes - Cogito Ergo Sum, Circular Reasoning, Scientific Revolution
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In an ever-changing world at the height of the scientific revolution, descartes wrote his novel. The main question he wants answered is how can we find truth in this world?" he begins by stripping away everything that he believed in, and he doubts everything. He wants to gain knowledge from his doubt about the way that the world really is. He questions god"s existence, his own existence, the relationship between mind and body, the existence of life outside ourselves, and the reason for our shortcomings and mistakes. Rationalism, descartes attempts to use reason rather than faith to gain knowledge of the world that we live in. Explain his vision of reality in meditation i. He comes to the conclusion that god is not the root of the deception, because god is all good. In doubting everything, he learns that an evil genius is the source of deception.
