What is doubt and how important it to recognizing it, is what Rene Descartes explains in his first meditation. In “ Meditation on first Philosophy in which the Existence of God and the Distinction between the Soul and the Body are Demonstrated” Descartes starts off his philosophical arguments by questioning his thought of truth and what he believes. He argues that there is doubt our truth and in our beliefs. In Meditation one, he argues two things; the Dream and the Evil Genius. In the beginning part of Mediation One, Descartes explains how our senses deceivable. He talks about how when he is sleeping he is also dreaming, he can sense real life objects at the same time, this causes him to almost be confused and not be able to tell if hes
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In the beginning of the First Meditation, Descartes mentions that God is good and because he is good he would not fool us into believing false things. If we do believe that, then we can not tricked by anything. Descartes states “ Perhaps God has not willed that I be deceived in this way, for he is said to be supremely good. Nonetheless, it were repugnant to his goodness to have created me such that I be deceived all the time, it would also seem foreign to that same goodness to permit me to be deceived even occasionally” ( Descartes, …show more content…
If this was true, and our senses are no good then how could we be a perfect human being, like God. He says “ But because being deceived and being mistaken appear to be a certain imperfection, the less powerful they take the author of my origin to be, the more probable it be that I am so imperfect that I am always deceived.” ( Descartes, 534) Descartes perspective on his opinions fall short as he wants to start to clearing his mind without disruptions.He closes out Meditation One by saying that the evil genius will arrive and will deceive everything he assumes is true. “I will not suppose a supremely good God, the source of the truth, but rather an evil genius, supremely powerful and cleaver, who has directed his entire effort at deceiving me” (Descartes, 535) He has so much doubt that he is eventually led into thinking nothing is real but the evil
In the beginning of the First Meditation, Descartes mentions that God is good and because he is good he would not fool us into believing false things. If we do believe that, then we can not tricked by anything. Descartes states “ Perhaps God has not willed that I be deceived in this way, for he is said to be supremely good. Nonetheless, it were repugnant to his goodness to have created me such that I be deceived all the time, it would also seem foreign to that same goodness to permit me to be deceived even occasionally” ( Descartes, …show more content…
If this was true, and our senses are no good then how could we be a perfect human being, like God. He says “ But because being deceived and being mistaken appear to be a certain imperfection, the less powerful they take the author of my origin to be, the more probable it be that I am so imperfect that I am always deceived.” ( Descartes, 534) Descartes perspective on his opinions fall short as he wants to start to clearing his mind without disruptions.He closes out Meditation One by saying that the evil genius will arrive and will deceive everything he assumes is true. “I will not suppose a supremely good God, the source of the truth, but rather an evil genius, supremely powerful and cleaver, who has directed his entire effort at deceiving me” (Descartes, 535) He has so much doubt that he is eventually led into thinking nothing is real but the evil