at the beginning of this Meditation Descartes knows with certainty that he himself exists . but he still holds doubt about other things images and ideas which might just be manifestastions of his own mind’s imagination.
Ihere exists something beyond the assumption on the physical explanation of the existence of human
With respect to their formal reality, some ideas are superior to or more perfect than others.
The idea he applied to his causal principle to establish that there exists something other than himself with his ideas is that he realizes his mind is self -contained, aware and intelligent. He summizes from this that he could not have created his self and from that and following his causal principle which states the cause is always
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Descartes was very like that because he could see what others could not.
Not understanding that one could not realize the existence of God, unless God calls him first, Descartes was only reacting to stimuli sent to him from God by God. While he thought he was the initiator he was not his very reaching out was an effect to a Prime Cause. but he did have some sense of it
“I will now shut my eyes, block my ears, cut off all my senses. I will regard all my mental images of bodily things as empty, false and worthless (if I could, I would clear them out of my mind altogether). I will get into conversation with myself, examine myself more deeply, and try in this way gradually to know myself more intimately. I am a thing that thinks, i understands some things, is ignorant of many others, wills, and refuses. This thing also imagines and has sensory perceptions; for, as I remarked before, even if the objects of my sensory experience and imagination don’t exist outside me, still sensory perception and imagination themselves, considered simply as mental events, certainly do occur in me.