Essays on Rene Descartes

Descartes has six meditations listed in his book. He vividly discards the need for believing in things that are not necessarily certain. In his books, he tries to state the relevant things that people he claims people should know for sure. According to the way…

Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of the Kingdom of France, One of the most notable intellectual figures of the Dutch Golden Age. Descartes contributed to many fields especially philosophy but due to the lack of available information and awareness…

The Reason for Freedom In order to be an individual you first need to desire individuality. Once the realization that total individuality is impossible is factored in, all that remains is the desire to desire. With this insatiable quest comes no reason or responsibility. Yet…

In this essay, I am going to analyse the relation between “I” and God two concepts from Descartes’s book “A Discourse on the Method”. People of his time in France would never have dared to say that “I” come before god, because they thought that…

Descartes and Dreams In Meditation I, René Descartes attempted to break down the information he had learned throughout the entirety of his life in an effort to rebuild his knowledge starting from a clean slate, free of falsehoods that he realizes much of his past…

Descartes feels that man is far from just a complex machine or animal. In Part Five of his Discourse on Method, he establishes two means by which to identify if a machine is really a rational human being or not. The two means are separate…

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” ~ Rene Descartes h2>Cartesian Rationalism & the Mind/Body Problem Philosophy is founded on the principles of human reason…

Many associate dualism with the religious themes seen amongst the works of dualist philosophers, such as Rene Descartes, often discrediting it amongst “most scientifically minded people.” (Gertler, 303) Many of which support the contrasting belief of physicalism, the belief that everything exists in a physical…

Rene Descartes’s “Discourse on the Method” highlights several strong beliefs–including that the human mind is a malleable, thinking machine, and that our distinctive thoughts are the foundation for the functioning of our immortal souls, although there are certain concrete laws of nature (Descartes, 29). As…

To prove whether God exists or not, has always been a topic of debate. There have been many arguments to prove the existence of God but not many of them have stood the test of time and have been criticized. Descartes’s explanations can also be…

The next stage of Plato’s Allegory is freedom. In Plato’s Allegory it simply states one day the chain connected to the prisoner breaks and he is able to move and be free. In the matrix this part is more nuanced and Neo is given a…

Descartes and Locke are both considered as two of the primary early modern philosophers in the seventeenth century. Descartes and Locke are both attempting to find an answer to the same questions in epistemology such as what is knowledge and is their certainty in knowledge?…

Have you ever wondered what It would be like for two of the worlds most influential thinkers in the realm of philosophy, Plato and the sixteenth century’s most prominent adherent for philosophy Rene Descartes to have a conversation? Both Descartes and Plato seemed to distrust…

Have you ever wondered if it was possible to actually know another person’s or even another animal’s conscious state? This question has sparked numerous discussions and debates which basically summarizes the idea of consciousness. What is consciousness? By checking Oxford Dictionary of English and to…

Determining the relationship between mental and bodily states represents what philosophers have known as the mind-body problem. Its resolution has been one of the main knots of philosophy, which, even today has not been unleashed. This problem appeared in ancient times when the mind was…