Rene Descartesian Doubt

Famous philosopher who is willing to doubt everything, including the existence of his own body. Cogito ergo Sum - I'm thinking, therefore I exist, famously saying that gave the great French encyclopedia, Rene Descartes, went into the history of the great philosophers on over the world. Along with Francis Bacon (An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author), Descartes has created a revolution in the history of modern Western European philosophy, has contributed strongly criticized the idea of church and Scholastic, with the desire to build a philosophical system and new science.

To verify the authenticity and certainty of scientific knowledge, the existence of things around us. Descartes proposed a unique

In the metaphysical meditation, in 1641, he used a more aggressive suspicion and posed a series of questions about all things cruel phenomenon, and even for the stability of mathematics ... then he went to claim that there was only a special unquestionable - that was something that human can never know with absolute certainty. ““If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” The suspect had already become like a common method used is called the method of Cartesian doubt. In his letter gave to his friend to explaining the method was suspected by a excited example. Imagine that you have a whole pile of apples should be stored carefully. If you are wise, you will know that all you to store apples must be really good. And if there is a corrupt fruit, or rot, it will be infected into the remaining fruit. Therefore, you must ruthlessly discarded a mercilessly though it's just a little scratched, and it was not useable. From here, what he went to the

The vicious back to Descartes found the charges reasonable that he cannot be wrong that way; clear and bright, just a relative concept, clear and bright can come to you but for me, it's dark obscurity. That is the reason why Descartes recourse to God. To destroy the invisible demon, must be based on where God never fooled and always ensure that any Cogito comes in mind are true and correct. From that, Descartes went to prove the existence of God that in his mind the idea of a perfect existence. A flawed exist as he cannot think of an idea of a perfect existence. So, the idea of a perfect existence must come from that perfection exists. An improvement would not exist if it did not complete existence. So, a perfect existence must exist. Descartes has been a mistake to prove the existence of man through thinking, as well as the existence of things only through the notion of man. For example, people always have ideas of fire, everyone has a certain idea of it should surely exist fire. However, with his suspicions became the method also brings many positive elements. The cynicism of the Descartes has contributed strongly criticized the church scholastic thought, all human knowledge that has been achieved up to now are under the critique of the physical properties. Also, human intelligence will be a