Rene Descartes Essays and Research Papers

On The Method, Descartes discusses and questions his educational upbringing. Descartes proclaims that he received a great Jesuit education that promised to provide him with knowledge of everything important. Descartes says that the more he learned the more he began to question himself, and that the more he actually retained the knowledge he gained the…

“Cogito Ergo Sum”- “I Think, Therefore I am”. This famous statement by Rene Descartes has been studied for the past few centuries. Decarte’s belief that anything that we are capable of perceiving could be doubted. What we see, touch, feel are not real. Only our thought and imagination has made those objects real. His belief…

Throughout his lifetime Descartes realized certain things about life. In an effort to get his thoughts across he wrote the Meditations to help people learn how to live the way he believed to be most beneficial. Meditation 1, The Method of Doubt, is built around clearing ones mind of all knowledge in order to build…