Dualizam U Dekartovim Meditacijama

SYNOPSIS OF THE SIX FOLLOWING MEDITATIONS
1. IN THE First surmisal I expound the grounds on which we may disbelieve in general of all things, and especially of material goals, so long at least, as we have no otherwise foundations for the sciences than those we have hitherto possessed. Now, although the utility of a doubt so general may not be manifest at first sight, it is nevertheless of the greatest, since it delivers us from all prejudice, and affords the easiest pathway by which the attend may withdraw itself from the senses; and finally asks it impossible for us to doubt wherever we afterward discover truth.
2. In the Second, the sagaciousness which, in the exercise of the freedom peculiar to itself, supposes that no object is, of the existence of which it has even the slightest doubt, finds that, meanwhile, it must itself exist. And this point is likewise of the highest moment, for the mind is thus enabled easily to distinguish what pertains to itself, that is, to the intellectual nature, from what is to be referred to the body.



unless since some, perhaps, will expect, at this stage of our progress, a statement of the reasons which attain the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, I deliberate it proper here to make such aware, that it was my aim to write nothing of which I could not give exact demonstration, and that I therefore felt myself oblige to adopt an order similar to that in use among the geometers, viz., to put in all upon which the proposition in question depends, before climax to any conclusion respecting it. Now, the first and chief prerequisite for the fellowship of the immortality of the soul is our being able to form the clearest possible supposition (conceptus--concept) of the soul itself, and such as shall be absolutely unadorned from all our notions of body; and how this is to be accomplished is there shown. thither is required, besides this, the assurance that all objects which we clearly and distinctly think are true (really exist) in that very mode in...If you neediness to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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