Descartes_First_Meditations

Descartes First Meditations In Descartes work on “First Meditations” he raises many questions concerning his beliefs with respect to reality. Is Descartes existence real, or is he an illusion of his own imagination. Is his life tangible or he only exists because he thinks he exists. The starting point for Descartes philosophy is not using his senses to acquire information about his existence or reality, but, using his mind knowledge, the dream problem, and, the possibility of a deceiving God to show the uncertainty of many common beliefs. René Descartes existence relies on his knowledge of himself and what he knows to be a true reality. Descartes suggest that physics, astronomy, and medical knowledge is not significant and doubtful, but, mathematics is a certainty. René Descartes believes that the knowledge of the mind is more certain that the senses. For example, what you see cannot be true because your mind has knowledge that it is impossible to be true. A question he raises is the idea that if our dreams seemed so real then how would one know the difference between the dream world and the real world. There is his doubt that he does not exist descartes, existence, real, questions, knowledge, reality, god, life, true, mind, dream, senses, rené, exist, beliefs, because, world, using, universe, uncertainty, sometimes, respect, rely, raises, point, parts, own, need, mathematics, important, imaginary, illusion, himself, further, exists