Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes Meditations on the First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction Between mind and Body are Demonstrated. Rene Descartes was an advocate of Dualism, which is a philosophy that states that the world is made up of two elemental categories that are incompatible, such as mind and body, which always exist separately. He wrote his Meditations with two central issues in mind: Proving the existence of God and proving the …

…God does not implant ideas of perception in me since this would be deception 5. Therefore, external objects are the active source of perceptions Descartes ends the Meditations with the final thought that bodily perceptions do exist by restoring confidence in bodily perceptions by setting aside the possibility that he is dreaming. When we are awake, our memories unite the events of our lives; when we are dreaming, memory cannot connect our dreams together. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**