First, we must remember that Descartes was writing in a time where challenging the authority, the Roman Catholic Church, was a vary difficult task to fulfill. Also, questioning the existence of God as a Roman Catholic, educated by the elite Jesuits, was seen to be almost blasphemous. Descartes, merely takes us on a voyage of higher learing; questioning what we have been taught to accept. He introduces to us a method of logical thinking that helps us, I modern day thinking, deduce that which is 'real" or importantly ideal, from that which is "unreal" or somewhat extraneous in the grand scheme of life.

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