Descartes Meditation Two
Descartes comes up with the wax argument in order to explain what he is – what man is. His certainty that he exists, that he can even utter or conceive the thought in his mind allows him to consider this idea and further develop it coming to his conclusion. But before he begins his thinking on this subject he meditates on what he once believed himself to be. Descartes starts by invalidating (for the arguments sake) any thought that could possibly be weakened by any argument. What he hopes is left is only that which is certain and unshaken. Only after doing this he begins his thinking on the question, “what is man.” He decides to focus only on the things that come spontaneously into his head when thinking about this question. The first thoughts he talks about when doing this is those of the characteristics of the body and the soul. To the soul he attributes his senses and his thoughts, and that he takes in food and walks about. Yet, he doesn’t quite know exactly or did not think about what a soul was. To the body he attributes that he has a face, hands, arms and other bodily members. However, he had no doubts on what the body was. He describes it as being, “capable of being bounded by so
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Meditation Descartes, body soul, according descartes, wax comes, color shape size, shape size, flexible mutable, color shape, knowledge dependent, mind perceives, inspection mind, thinking question,
Approximate Word count = 1258
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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