Descartes: The objective behind Descartes Cogito and Avicenna’s flying man are vastly different. To begin with, Descartes is trying to show his readers that there is at least one thing that cannot be doubted. For example, if one think about how the Meditations begin, Descartes says he is setting out to engage in radical doubt; that he is going to get rid of, or at least bracket, all of the beliefs that he has that are susceptible to doubt.
Avicenna: Avicenna, by contrast, does not say anything about radical doubt; rather, the point is something about the soul and the way it relates to the body. More broadly, though, if one thinks about Avicenna’s point about self awareness always being available, one thing that he would say is that an individual
Avicenna: Avicenna, by contrast, does not say anything about radical doubt; rather, the point is something about the soul and the way it relates to the body. More broadly, though, if one thinks about Avicenna’s point about self awareness always being available, one thing that he would say is that an individual