Descartes First Meditation Essay

Before The Meditation
In our daily lives, a great many of us assume without a shadow of doubt the plausibility of things, which with closer inspection, are usually found to be plagued with incongruences that only a great deal of discernment provides the means that enable us to know what it is that we really wish to know. In the search for certainty, it is true for anyone to derive knowledge from their immediate experience, which is in part used as a sense experience. However, it is also true to hold steadfast to the idea that everything that is derived from experience should not be taken as wholly true, for as we all know, our senses daily deceives us. This is an idea that Descartes defends adamantly in his meditations.
In his first meditation Descartes says that in order to be rid of realities that are held to be true, but are actually …show more content…
And even if there was an evil demon God who deceives, because of the deception, he must necessarily be. So "I think (I doubt), therefore I exist" "cogito, ergo sum.” Descartes says that we are a thinking thing (res cogitans) and not what you first thought to be a body with a soul. In fact, if we had a body, we may be deceived by an evil genius who conspires against bodies. With regard to the attributes of the soul it can be said that it needs the body for nourishment, while thinking belongs to us because without it we would not even be us. So we can say that we are only a thinking thing / doubts (intellect) and not a soul or a body; it is our nature, besides the fact to doubt, even to affirm, deny, to imagine (and I can imagine, though I imagine what is false, this power is in me) and feel (through I have senses of perception and although they are all fake, I always seem to hear, so I