Rene Descartes Deceit

Many year has past when Rene Descartes realize that everything he had thought was to be true wasn’t, It turn out that everything he had worked on was a lie as well. Rene Descartes realize what he now what he has to do, he has to start all over from the ground up. Rene Descartes say’s “reason tells me that as well as withholding assent from propositions that are obviously false, I should also withhold it from ones that are not completely certain and indubitable. So all I need, for the purpose of rejecting all my opinions, is to find in each of them at least some reason for doubt.” (Descartes)
Witch say’s if he has reason to doubt something, then he isn’t going to accept it as knowledge, and he isn’t going to use it. Rene Descartes now says that he isn’t …show more content…
Rene Descartes is throwing away everything that he knows away. Shapes, air, the earth, color, sounds and all the external things are nothing but things in his dream. He will question himself as not having hands, or eyes, or flesh, or blood, or any senses, but only believe that he was believing in lies. Rene Descartes comes to a conclusion that he will take over what the evil genius had taken away from him. “If it is not within my power to know anything true, it certainly is within my power to take care resolutely to withhold my assent to what is false, lest this deceiver, however powerful, however clever he may be, have any effect on me.” (Descartes)
Rene Descartes has throw out five things in meditation one. The first one is his beliefs, the second is senses, the third is being awake, never know when he is truly awake or asleep, the fourth is his mind, and the fifth one is God ( Evil genius). Rene Descartes right know is taking a view as a Skeptic, someone who denies the ability to have knowledge and