the purpose of this study is to answer the question what did sociology gain from the enlightenment movement. In my view this was the drastic change in the way people viewed the natural world and seemed to gain knowledge about it. the way people approached the collection and validity of knowledge of the natural world change completely,. there was a general but strong need to question the authority and reasoning of the institution that had till this point dictated a view of the world that everyone was expected to adhere to. What essentially took place was the emergence of the scientific method that we use till this day to gather and explain our world and our being. there was no one person who pioneered and engineered the scientific method - there …show more content…
These provide the key to his approach towards the use of reason. A prevalent theme in both these texts os the method through which truth can be known. Descartes lamented that all knowledge that was gathered up to this point was laid on shaky foundation, expect for the knowledge gained in mathematics and geometry.
In meditations, His basic aim at the beginning is to force us to question the truthfulness of all things and set forth the importance of doubt He gives us logical reasoning to doubt the existence of all things Using this as the basis he then goes on to construct the evidence for the existence of god, since doubt is an imperfect action created by an imperfect being so there must be a perfect being by whom all this are made. The presence of the negative requires the presence of the positive. The method to search for truth was to divorce oneself from the senses and avoid taking any information that are provided by them because one’s senses can easily deceive. Hence, true knowledge must be sought independent of the sense and only thorough the understanding of the