Descartes Meditation 2 Summary

In Decartes’ meditations 1 & 2, the meditator deliberates his thoughts. Descartes reflects about where his views have come from and if the roots of these views are dependable or if they have been all based on untruthful notions. With this uncertainty clouding his vision, the meditator tries to build his thoughts from the ground up. In meditation 1 Descartes is reflecting on all things that can be named into uncertainty or doubt. He reflects on all his opinions and concludes that they all can be termed into doubt and then starts arguing these ideas. In meditation 2, Descartes takes what he has learned from mediation 1 and continues to build on his beliefs. He said that there is one thing he recognizes for sure and that is that “I exist.” return, calls all additional things into …show more content…
In Descartes first argument, he suggests that everything he identifies he has acquired from his senses. The senses for Descartes, and most people, have betrayed beforehand whether it is sniffing something that actually isn’t what you think it is, or seeing an object far-off and getting nearer and it is not what you believed it was. The meditator reasons that if his senses have betrayed him once, then they possibly will be misleading him all the while. Subsequently simmering the thought, he completes that his senses only betray him when it prompts to minor or far away things. Descartes then takes in the fact that crazy folks have these misleading moments a lot which brands them as insane. Crazy people have very madly impractical opinions about big current matters. Then it is as if Descartes has a sensation that if his senses betray him like that, then perhaps he might be insane which settles all your beliefs are questioned to doubt. Though, after considering this dispute of delusion and insanity, the mediator terminates it since it is