Descarte

Descarte Descartes believes that knowledge comes from within the mind a fact to build on that can be gained through individual reflection. White seeking true knowledge, Descartes writes his Meditations. In these meditations, Descartes tries to develop a strong foundation, which all knowledge can be built upon. In the First Meditation, Descartes begins developing this foundation through the method of doubt. Descartes observed that many things that he had accepted as true in his early days were in fact false. He realized that everything was based on these erroneous beliefs had to be false as well. He must destroy his existing house of “knowledge” and lay a new foundation on which to construct a indestructible surface. He wants to start at the foundation, and establish what is certainly true. Once Descartes clears away all beliefs that can be doubted, he can then build a strong base for all true knowledge to be tested against. He attacks the principle on which his former beliefs rested because when the foundation is undermined, the entire superstructure will collapse. “The result is a type of rationalism in which the only certainties are discovered by the mind through self-evident insight descartes, true, knowledge, evil, deceived, thinking, senses, know, foundation, demon, beliefs, being, go, first, even, argument, about, through, since, one, mind, knows, false, everything, certain, bodies, beings, we’re, until, trust, thus, strong, say, place, ourselves