René Descartes On Kindness Essay

While I’ve always been a kind person, I didn’t start valuing kindness until high school. Once I started to see how being kind to others can make such a positive impact on the world, it became a part of my philosophy. I strive to treat everyone I encounter equally and with respect. Kindness can go a long way; it becomes a chain reaction. I have found that the more I act with kindness, the more I am treated with respect. Additionally, acting with a little kindness can encourage others to do the same. This is apparent in my workplace. I work for The Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich, where some of the children have very challenging family lives. These children tend to be rambunctious, frustrating my co-workers. With time, I have concluded that, depending on the circumstances, the children respond better to being treated with respect and the proper attention, rather than with immense scolding and punishment. In addition, these children often do not have a quiet place to study at home and the cannot get their homework done. I have made a point to try …show more content…
That being said, René Descartes came to find a reason to doubt any belief based on sense of experience through his dream argument. In his writing, Descartes explains that there have been many occasions in which he has been deceived while dreaming. “In dwelling carefully on this reflection I see so manifestly that there are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep that I am lost in astonishment. And my astonishment is such that it is most capable of persuading me that I now dream.” (220). Descartes claims that it is possible that we may be dreaming right now. He argues that what we experience may not be real because we may be dreaming. According to his idea, we cannot be sure of what we experience through our senses. Therefore, experience may not lead to knowledge.