Descartes’ “cogito ergo sum” sums up the second meditation, emphasizing the significance of the mind to the human nature. In the closing passage of the second meditation, he recognizes the power of the mind and commends it above the physical body and senses. He goes as far as to base the existence of material object on the mind’s understanding of such things rather than the perception of the physical senses of those materials. As this is a novel thought for Descartes, he admits that more meditation is needed “in order to fix this newly acquired knowledge more deeply in my memory” (Descartes
Descartes’ “cogito ergo sum” sums up the second meditation, emphasizing the significance of the mind to the human nature. In the closing passage of the second meditation, he recognizes the power of the mind and commends it above the physical body and senses. He goes as far as to base the existence of material object on the mind’s understanding of such things rather than the perception of the physical senses of those materials. As this is a novel thought for Descartes, he admits that more meditation is needed “in order to fix this newly acquired knowledge more deeply in my memory” (Descartes