Rene Descartes Philosophy

Philosophy has come a long way since it began. Rene Descartes was the principal father of philosophy. He was the perfect representative for the new scientific spirit. He had strong beliefs that there was a God that existed and he wanted to prove everyone wrong with his axioms. Alongside of this axioms he also went ahead explained his arguments for universal doubt through his book of Meditations. There was many people that disagreed with his view and they argued it with science, but he still presented enough information to argue why something that is doubted is able to exist. I experienced a great upgrade and opportunity is education growing up. I believe it was an act from the all-knowing and all-powerful since there is not a scientific explanation …show more content…
Descartes described that human knowledge was like a tree; trunk was physics and roots were metaphysics. Descartes used three types of axioms to support his thoughts and beliefs. He claimed his axioms to be undoubtable. One of his axioms that was ethical was “I exist”, there was also the physical axiom coming from natural philosophy “I am thinking ‘things’”, and lastly the metaphysics axiom of “God exists.” Descartes said that people that don’t understand or belief in God, do not fully understand the concept of God. Along with his axioms, Descartes was really interested in math. He would look for truth in the inputs and the outputs that he was classifying as bad on both sides, he would look at them in a mathematical way. He stated that mathematics was a form of knowledge. Alongside of his axioms, he uses three very similar arguments to open our knowledge to doubt: the deceiving God argument, the evil demon argument, and the dream argument. Each one of these ideas represents that we never experience external object directly, but only through the matters of our own mind and the images that are created. Descartes introduces dreams, a deceiving God, and an evil demon as ways of motivating this doubt in the accuracy of our sense experience (Meditations). Descartes also has an explanation of deceitfulness for each of these ideas. For the God argument, he states, “We believe that there is an all-powerful God who has created us and who is all-powerful. Next, for the evil demon argument, Descartes claims that instead of assuming that God is the source of our deceptions, we will assume that there exists an evil demon that is capable of deceiving us in the same way God is able to do so. Then there is the dream argument, which Descartes claims that there are no definite signs to distinguish dream experience from waking experience, therefore, it is completely possible to dreaming is