Meditation Essay

believing in it, doesn 't go away.” When reflecting on philosophical questions and their reality that one asks on a daily basis, one must start by finding the origin of the questions through several readings. These readings involved both, Descartes’ Meditation and Other Metaphysical Writings and Robert Nozick’s The Experience Machine. With close analysis, these two works of literature helped aid the answer to, “Why are questions of “ultimate meaning” important?” Using specific arguments from…

Descartes’ Dream World Worry Descartes has a very important plan in mind for his Meditations on First Philosophy and part of this plan involves bringing everything we know into question and finding what it is that we can know about the world around us and about ourselves. He wants to do this in order to find a solid base of what we certainly know, so he can build up what we can know onto that certainty. In these meditations he brings to light some problems with knowing things that we perceive,…

Rene Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher from the 1600s who created the Cartesian plane and is the author of “Meditations.” In “Meditations,” he mentioned his goal was to want certain knowledge to be firm and lasting, or undoubtable as he explained there are already many things that are deceiving us such as sense data (e.g. optical illusions) and dreams. Thus, he suggested that everyone should doubt old beliefs, old habits, seemingly obvious truths such as 2+3=5, and anything…

In his Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes proposes the argument: “Nothing further now remains but to inquire whether material things exist. And certainly I at least know that these may exist insofar as they are considered as the objects of pure mathematics, since in this aspect I perceive them clearly and distinctly” (451) Essentially Descartes is putting forth the assertion that only the mathematical characteristics of objects can be clearly and distinctly perceived as being…

In René Descartes’ Meditations of the First Philosophy: Third Edition, he remarks “I am... precisely nothing but a thinking thing” (p. 27). The possibility that Descartes is nothing but a thinking thing brings in the question of the physical existence of his bodies or even if he exists in the first place. Once Descartes has established that he is a thinking thing, he is convinced that as long as he is thinking he must exist. The action of sensing his surroundings is a form of thought. As long as…

“Meditation” is also one of the Cyril Wong latest poems. This poem discusses the social issues in Singapore. The first stanzas underline a typical perception of a Singaporean on viewing any issues. Wong explains that most people in Singapore will only observe social issue without using their judgment. In other words, Singaporeans tend to view an issue only on exterior basis and they not even bothered to use their reasoning behind any social issue. He support his argument in the second stanza…

Descartes persists, especially in “Meditation One,” that the senses are easily tricked and that one could not know, with absolute certainty, that they display reality. In this film, every dream the subject is immersed in is nearly indistinguishable from reality by all five primary senses. Despite knowing this fact, at one point, Dominic Cobb questions the reality of seeing his deceased wife at a crucial point in his mission. This also draws from “Meditation Six,” in which one often cannot…

Even though the Meditations First on Philosophy was published in 1641 by René Descartes, he started working on this book in 1639, as revolution of sorts that ended with the Prince of Orange intervening on René’s behalf. This “controversy led Descartes to post two open letters against his enemies” that got him to involve a Prince and Princess, and charges where raised that “stemmed from various misunderstandings about his method and the supposed opposition of his theses to Aristotle,” the things…

Philosopher Rene Descartes wrote an influential piece named the “Meditations on First Philosophy.” In this work, his “First Meditation” mainly deals with doubt of existence and how doubt is made possible because of sensory deception. He creates the dream argument that argues about how it is possible to be uncertain about whether or not a person is in a real world or dream world. In philosopher G.E. Moore’s “Certainty” he attempts to debunk Descartes’ argument through showing the inconsistencies…

In Meditation I, Descartes raises a great philosophical question as he argues to show that he cannot possibly know that he is not always dreaming. He asserts that there are no definite signs to distinguish his dreaming experiences from waking experiences. In his argument, he defends the idea that we could all be trapped in a life-long dream and that none of our experiences are real. Descartes then develops his argument furthermore to prove his existence and the idea of dualism. In his Meditation…