Descartes Meditations

Introduction

It is not religion that dictates to man what to think, but the man himself, his thoughts, the "I think." It thus places the individual at the center of his system and he studies the rational method, applicable to all areas of knowledge. The Meditations is the path of a solitary thought to provide the building of modern science and a firm foundation provided by the discovery of a principle beyond question. Descartes reverses the first part of Pascal's thought, and gives, as no one before him, content second (Blom, 1978, 29). It shows as well as some classical conception ...