Rene Descartes Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rene Descartes was a true pioneer of his time. In 1628, he wrote Rules for the Direction of the Mind, and within the first rule in summary implies that we as human beings should control our minds into making accurate and precise perceptions through what and how we experience these things. Through the first rule individuals can already safely assume that Rene Descartes is writing about rationalism. When one uses religion and faith to perceive the world around him, then he is subject to the opinion of his faith and not of his own mind, however, if he thinks as a rationalist thinks, then he is open to a greater range of ideas and opinions. Rules two and three astate that people should only study things that they can get cold hard facts on and not something that would be classified …show more content…
In Discourse on the Method, Rene Descartes starts off by confessing that he had come to doubt all of his previous knowledge. But later he then overcomes this doubt and using the Rules for the Direction of the Mind, he solves one of the world's biggest philosophical verbalizations of all time, Cogito ergo sum which translates to “I think, therefore I exist”. Rene Descartes founded this idea when he threw all his existing beliefs out of the window. That an evil force was making him believe in false ideas. After a while, Rene Descartes then went on to know one certain belief, he was thinking. He believed that the evil force couldn’t make him think that he was thinking because to think that you are not thinking is still thinking in itself. Rene Descartes then goes on to say that since that it is true that he is thinking, then it must also be true he exists. Rene Descartes then goes on to explain that with belief, the mind can exist separate from the