Descartes_Meditation_6,_Part_2

Descartes:Meditation 6, Part 2 The (Un)Certainty of Dualism In Meditation 6, Descartes wraps up his discussion of God and the mind-body distinction. In the first portion of this meditation he determines the certainty of his primary remaining points, so the last half is mostly just conclusion. He finishes discussing the relationship between the body and the mind, and how much we should trust our senses. Although Descartes seems satisfied with the certainty of all his claims, I am not entirely convinced. I believe that he falls short of providing sufficient evidence for some claims, and does not fully reach all the points that he tries to make. To begin his discussion on the relationship between the mind and body he says that nature clearly shows that he has a body, and that he is very closely joined with it. He explains that he knows this because without the body there would be no sensations like pain or hunger. He further specifies that these sensations are modes of thinking which come from this close union with the body. Here I think Descartes has a good point, but I’m not sure it gets him where he wants to be. I agree that we would have no body, descartes, bodies, nature, because, mind, evidence, brain, sensations, thoughts, seems, relationship, gland, certainty, certain, without, truth, surgery, point, pineal, parts, part, one, mind-body, memory, memories, meditations, meditation, make, god, find, even, entirely, don’t, doesn’t, discussion