DESCARTES PHILOSOPHY

Analysis of Descartes Philosophy from Discourse on the Method

Analysis of Descartes Philosophy from Discourse on the Method

Introduction

Work of the philosopher that we'll be looking upon is French who mostly spent his adult life along the Dutch. Rene Descartes who is also depicted as father of modern philosophy belongs from an era before Leibniz and Spinoza. Descartes born in the sixteenth century; however, his work belongs from the early seventeenth century. Out of his work pieces on various subjects, the work on meditation is still followed as primary courses for philosophy students.

René Descartes (1596-1650) pioneered “Method of Doubt” and his maxim of Dubito, ergo sum (I doubt, therefore I am) as well as his foundational idea of undulatio reflexa (or automatic bodily movement). His ideas served as points of departure for the modern period (from about 1600 to 1960) and the physiological foundations of psychology. This paper present and explains Descartes' Method of Doubt and how he used this method to call into question his knowledge of external objects, and mathematics and geometry.

Descartes known for initiatives taken in the study of philosophy; he got credit to lay down the foundation of differing philosophies and proclaimed to be very beneficial for the impending philosophers. However, amongst all his works the work considered that his most successful work was creating a concept and argument for the existence.

Discussion

In his work, he highlights about the existence of himself as a human being; however, he took the study to a greater extent and put an argument to the existence of God. Descartes highlights various points to prove his argument but on similar cases, it seems as if he not so sure.

Amongst his lots of work, he came decided to start believing in the fact that does he exists or not? He used to think from ...