Descartes Meditations
The way Descartes chose to write this piece literature captivated me. Descartes was a very intelligent man who wanted to make sense of the world he lived in. The format he used was unusual. It seems to me that he may have used this format, which is a replication of the book of Genesis in the Bible, to have a deeper and more profound impact on the reader. There are many similarities between Descartes’ Meditations and the first book of the Bible, Genesis. For example, Descartes’ Meditations was written one day at a time, just as God had created the world one day at a time. Furthermore, the order Descartes’ daily writings took resembled the same order the Bible had for the creation of the world. Meditation One in Meditations coincides with day one of God’s creation of the world. In the Bible, “God divided the light from the darkness.” (Bible Gen. 1:3) In Descartes’ work, day one consisted of separating our senses from reality. “[T]here are no definitive signs by which to distinguish being awake from being asleep.” (Descartes 352) Descartes is actually questioning whether or not the bodies we reside in actually exist or if we are in a continual dream state. I feel that Descartes’ intent in his first entry was
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Approximate Word count = 1676
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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