Thursday, March 6, 2008
method of doubt
By doubting almost everything Descartes decided to throw everything that he knows and learned away. So, he came up with the Method of Doubt, by questioning about everything that the past philosopher in the past has came up with, and fined the answer to them, and then the idea would not be doubtful anymore. That was his new way for finding the ultimate truth. Every time he questions about an idea that was already there and when he doubt about it and go into his meditation state, he hope to find the ultimate truth for that question.
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I don't think that Descartes was actually seeking for the answers to past philosophers questions. I think part 1 of the Discourse was more or less about the discovery of his own ignorance, although he already has achieved has a high intellectual status. You have made it seem as though he has some kind of doubt about almost everything so he is going to review past philosophers, then meditate and decide whether that leads to an answer. Personally I don't think that makes much sense because Descartes isn't actually looking for all the answers. He looks at the world as 'false' and that everything is wrong so that he can seek for an understanding of how and why things are the way they are and what if they were different.
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