It’s my thought that I am immediately aware of through pure intuition, to know that I am the one who is thinking and I am doubting. And it’s not your thought that’s giving rise to my doubts. Now, if I am thinking, what else does that tell me through resistless logic,” according to Descartes? “If I am thinking-I am having thought-there must be something that is doing the thinking, because thought requires a thinker. So now he says, “If I am doubting, then I know that I am thinking. Then he said, “Okay, what else is clearly contained within the idea of my doubting?” Well, for someone to doubt, they must be thinking. So, he came to the certain conclusion that he was doubting. If I doubt that I am doubting, I prove that I am doubting. So, one thing I know for sure is that I am doubting. Because if you doubt that you’re doubting, what are you doing? You’re doubting. But the one thing he couldn’t doubt was that he was doubting. I’m going to doubt everything that I can conceivably doubt.” So, Descartes embarked on this process where he doubted everything. I'm not going to trust scientific authorities. I’m not going to trust theological authorities. He said, “How do I know that what I am perceiving in the external world really exists out there, or is not simply a hallucination in my own mind, or an illusion perpetrated by some wicked devil who’s fooling me? I can’t trust, in the final analysis, with absolute certainty, what I perceive in the external world. He questioned whether the hand that he saw in front of his face was really there. But I want to cut through all of the confusion of my day and get down to those basic ideas, those basic truths that are indisputable, that I can take to the bank, that I can live my life on-on the basis of certitude.” And so, from this, he set out on what I call a “systematic doubt process,” by which he, being from Missouri, that Southern part of France, he decided to question any thought or any proposition that he ever heard-to question it to death. Show me its validity.” He said, “Even my own conjecture does not bring certitude. He said, “Don’t just tell me what everybody else believes. Today, watch the entire message for free. Sproul identifies the one reality that René Descartes could not escape through his doubt: his own existence. It is because you can not be sure or that our body exists.“I think, therefore I am.” Have you heard this phrase before? In this brief clip, R.C. He stated that, although we all have a mind and a body, the only certainty is the existence of the mind (thought, reason). Rene Descartes went even further with his philosophical inquiries of reason.
It derives from an absolute reason projecting the idea of a mechanistic universe. So he decided to devise a new system that could get rid of them.ĭescartes then created a method that involved a mathematical instrument of pure deduction. Rene Descartes believed that the common opinion and experience of humanity were not reliable to seek the truth. He wrote it in the year 1637 in Leiden, Holland. He said the quote first in his book “Speech of the Method”. The evidence of Descartes on the indubitability of which I doubt because I think and because I am, would result in the famous phrase “I think, therefore I exist”. Therefore “I think” would lead to two unique conclusions: first I think and then I exist. So the only question that can not be removed is the doubt itself.ĭescartes then comes to the conclusion that if it is not possible to eliminate the doubt, at least he can not doubt that he thinks he is doubting. Thanks to the criterion of doubt begins to doubt everything but could not escape the recurrent doubt that “is hesitating”. Therefore it is a methodical doubt and not a definitive mental posture. He sustained that the cogito or thought, which are all the conscious acts of the spirit, always implies doubt.ĭoubting everything, according to Descartes, is only a methodological procedure to find an undoubted truth.
It summarizes his intellectual and philosophical process that states that the only way to find the truth is through reason.ĭescartes tried to establish an evident truth by means of a deductive system.
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