Rene Descartes Truly Valuing His Religion

Truly valuing his religion, Descartes recognizes all people have different upbringings, and their way to the church may be blocked or postponed. It implies that he doesn’t hold it against another when they lack knowledge of his religion. He feels blessed to have had God so involved in his life, all the way from his childhood. He’s also persuading the church and religious elite to believe he's an advocate for the church. He feels blessed to have had God so involved in his life, all the way from his childhood.

Descartes is acknowledging the effect his physical world has had on his philosophy. He claims his soul is separate from his body. If his soul can exist without his body, with no foreign influence, could he have come to such conclusions about spirituality and a God? We know one thinks, therefore one is; but can one think and be without the physical world? Can the soul exist without the body’s experiences? Or are we limiting ourselves by applying laws of the physical world to souls? …show more content…
In this age, because we are locked to the laws of our physical world, we have no way of proving the mind continues without the body. Furthermore, what would be contained in our minds that didn’t begin with our senses? Releasing himself from a solipsistic mental process, Descartes finds for himself that he exists, here physically. Also, in complete darkness with no feeling, he knows his mind can continue separate from the physical world. Thus, while existing in a body the mind can function independent of the senses. Then, how can it be proved that without a house of complex tissue and cranium, the soul could exist to us? Would the soul not still exist if we couldn’t witness