René Descartes Meditations Of The First Philosophy

René Descartes was a French Philosopher who challenged the popular explanations of the Scholastic-Aristotelian philosophers’ reasons for their existence, earning himself the name; the Father of Modern Philosophy. His most popular quote, “I think, therefore I am,” was just the beginning of his challenge. Through long, tedious thought processes that drove many mad, he was able to discount the reasoning of existence solely based on the presence of the senses. The modern philosophical world has based a large number of theories of existences on the Meditations of the First Philosophy, which is Descartes’s treatise. The first and second meditation of this dissertation, introduce the beginning of his arguments for his existence and state other arguments, which justify his reasoning. Descartes argues that his existence is not

First, he cancelled out the senses as a factual source of existence since the senses can deceive him into thinking he exists when in reality he could be just be dreaming, because the senses play a large role in dreams and we can touch, taste, smell, hear, and see our dreams. Then he eliminated the fact that his body, the sky, the earth, mainly the physical things in life, proves his existence due to the fact that they could be objects of deception by some Malicious Demon. Finally he concluded that if he is having these thoughts that he may be being deceived then he does exist for he has a mind and a thought process and he doesn’t need physical confirmation of his existence due to his mental