SOCL 3101 Chapter : SOCL3101 Oneil 02032016
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Ren descartes"s statement, i think therefore i am. almost everyone and a philosophy class will have come across this statement. Enlightenment period, where there was a trend going on during his lifetime somewhat away from the dogmatic following of roman catholic church doctrine and towards secularism and we also begin seeing the rise of protestantism. Europe was changing, and would continue to do so for the next couple of centuries. So he came to the conclusion that the very fact that he could think about his own existence was proof that he did indeed exist. His statement was met by critics during his own lifetime as well as afterwards. Now it is quite obvious that you do not have to have the ability to think in order to exist. For example, rocks exist, water exist and in many different forms but neither think.
