Rene Descartes Meditation On First Philosophy Essay

Topic: René Descartes’s argument that the fundamental basis of our knowledge should be doubted and looked upon to see the reality of our mind and our false experiences. I agree with Descartes arguments for the following point given above and from research.
Topic Background:
Famous philosopher Descartes developed his reasoning of doubt throughout his book, “Meditation on First Philosophy.” In this book, he reveals six meditations in which describe the fact and the reasoning behind with. His reasoning became so strong that there is a type of doubt called for him, the cartesian skepticism in which demonstrates the doubting of essentially the truths of one’s beliefs. Descartes reasoning was based on not being able to trust our senses for which they always fail us in many ways, such as when passing by

We have relied upon the ability into seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling to know what to do in this life. For example, when we were young, most of us had touched a stove with our bare hands and after the sense of feeling, we then discovered what is hot and what is cold. However, to Descartes, this can be doubted by realizing that there is a deception that makes us think what is actually cold or warm. Likewise, it leads to an individual 's perspective on what is actually hot or cold, meaning that there is no actual definition, but still, doesn’t give no reason not to be able to doubt. Our senses always fail us in many ways, such as, when touching cold water after being outside in the cold one feels the water warm, for such reasons there is doubting of our senses. We are able to question after all our abilities to feeling or seeing for the fact that they have failed us in many ways and there is no prove that they are actually the reality. On the other hand, our senses can be derived by the way we use them in every day and to avoid danger and have