Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Second Meditation
D's second meditation talks of his doubts, or rather the fact that he does doubt, percieve, is aware of sensory data surrounding, that he must exist, unless he believes he is being decieved by a supreme diety. He starts thinking toward the idea that maybe his thought is separate from his body. All the while during this meditation i believe he is questioning the "I" what it is, this undescribable entity for he even states "...the actual words bring me up short." In short of a breakthrough he is confused of his own thoughts and whether there is any bearing to them.
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I don't really understand the "I" part either. Does Descartes think the soul is the perfect being of each individual given their function comes from God? He starts to think that maybe his ideas are separate from his body in this meditation, and in Discourse 4 he says that the ideas that enter his head must come from a more perfect being, God. So does he think the soul is the perfection of what God wants us to be and the body is doing it's work and the mind is trying to understand what it's work is?
Steven Leckel
If thoughts or soul are separate from the body, this calls into question why we would have a body in the first place. If God is a perfect being who can do no wrong, was he right in creating the human body with an innate soul.Why not just create a soul? Why would God allow our thoughts to come from a completely different entity. He made us for a reason so our thoughts must be our own.
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