Rene Descartes Meditations Study

Epistemology, also known as the theory of knowledge, is a complicated study that is both difficult to understand and even more difficult to put into words. In Rene Descartes Meditations study, Descartes sets out on a mission to prove that truly knowing if something exists could only be reached if his own mind was cleansed and completely logical. In order to achieve this, Descartes must rid his mind of everything he knows and start with a clean slate. One of his most significant issues is his constant threat of judging something incorrectly or perhaps being deceived by what he already knows; both of which could lead him to blunder. Even though errors exist in every individual’s life and are almost a daily occurrence, Descartes main point is to eliminate error which is the main focus of his Meditations. This being a very difficult task to accomplish, he must clear his mind and think completely logically and not creatively. In our brains knowledge and judgement are dealt within the same region. The intellect and will conflicts with the knowledge and judgement functionality of the brain and is …show more content…
He then goes on about how we can doubt the certainty of all our beliefs. One of his most pronounced theses, the existence of God, is one of the major things he has come to question, leaving to the proposal of his evil demon argument which contemplates God’s existence. He takes the idea of a God who is incapable of falsehood or evil and proposes that perhaps it is an evil demon who puts ideas and thoughts in his mind. He states that perhaps every thought he has is just the evil demon leading him down a path of deception. This makes him question every bit of knowledge that he has every obtained and made him think that perhaps all of what he knows is only what the evil demon allows him to