Descartes Meditations
...Like whether or not God exists, to what extent God controls our lives and what do we control on our own and how much God teaches us. Some of these problems he thinks he has resolved, with logic that he seems to think is undeniable. However, reading this there are some things that are questionable because of the logic he uses. Descartes discusses these problems in Meditations one through six, he also discusses on whether or not God exists, and wants to use questionable logic to prove that he does. Descartes talks about how there are some things that are questionable in his first meditation in whether or not they are true. Like physics, we do not know if physics is true, or if an apple falling from a tree is traveling at 9.8 meters per seconds squared or if it is just God pushing it down with his hand. However, things like geometry and math, that are proven, have to be true, two plus two is four, a square has four sides, and that will never change. In the second meditation Descartes realizes that he has a face, arms, legs, torso and fingers. That these body parts make up his body, and he realizes this for the first time. He goes on to call himself a “rational man” but then questions what “rational” means. It could be “being in on characterized by full possession of one’s reason; sane; lucid” He also doesn’t understand himself sufficiently; this might be because he was unsure on whether or not he could exist without his senses or body. In the third meditation he questions the existence of God; Descartes says that if there is really a God though he has no reason to think he is a deceiver. But if this is true than why do our senses deceive us? When we look at the sun, it looks small, and so our first reaction would be to think that the sun is small. This is not true though, from astronomical findings we know that the sun is quite big. Descartes then goes on to...
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