Meditation Case
Essay by hey123321 • January 27, 2014 • Essay • 866 Words (4 Pages) • 984 Views
Descartes conclusions from the 2nd meditation He was also not sure about it if a "deceiver with supreme power" exist or not, but when the deceiver exist that Descartes is sure no matter how much power he/she have and try to influent Descartes that he still know and be sure about that he is something. What was he thinking about it what he was, did he had not the knowledge that he was a living human being - a Man. Descartes had to convince himself that he alone exist and nothing else. What he was thinking about it where he was walking on it when no earth exist, how he can move, eat when no bodies exist and how he can think when no mind exsit. In today's world you can add there is a lot of people living on earth where you question if there have a mind, through their behavior and actions. My personal believe is we all (human being and animals) have a mind and thinking/working with it, but everybody in a different way and more or less. The next question was he so isolated living that Descartes convince himself that he only exist, did he not saw other people. In the same time as Descartes live there was different other people living for example Jan Josephs van Goyen (Painter, Landscape painter at The Hague), Ralph Hopton (Military, Royalist commander, English Civil War), Tsar Michael (Royalty, Tsar of Russia, 1613-45). All this people was thinking, living in different areas from the world and had also bodies that there can paint or fight and move from one area to another one.
Was really Descartes convince that only "I think, if I think, then I exist" that mean only a thinking person exist? Was he really only the one person who exist, defiantly not, but certainly he exist with a lot of other people. That mean in our time today, only thinking people exist, what we are doing with all the people there are not really thinking there making every day the same. Are there not human being, what are this people, an empty Silhouette? This cannot be right! For me is this also a mystery that he using every time the only "I" version, why not his name. Was his mind and knowledge only on him, why? He had a daughter, his brother, his sister or his parents, what he can choose and can put in his mind that there was also thinking and that mean there exist.
After all this question is still my knowledge and believe the same that Descartes conclusion of the 2nd meditation "I am, I exist" is true. Why I still believe it in this time when he live was that thinking and believing different as today. He was a person with a lot of doubt, so people are still living on earth, which is ok but not healthy to live with it. Somehow we have different things to take as is without telling anybody that is not exist for example the earth, our body or the space.
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