Friday, May 17, 2019

Response Paper of Meditation Four, Five, and Six

Descartes talked just about the true and the false, and how we make mistakes in conjecture Four. Descartes believed that error as such is not something real that depends upon perfection, but rather is merely a defect. And therefore there is no need to account for my errors by positing a faculty presumption to me by God for this purpose(546). He thought that the reason why we make mistakes is that the faculty of judging the truth, which we got from God, is not infinite(546).When Descartes foc subprogramd much closely on to a greater extent closely on himself and inquired into the nature of his errors, he noted that errors depend on the simultaneous concurrence of cardinal causes intellect and will(547). He didnt believe that God ought to have given us a greater faculty of knowing than he did(547). So we quite a littlenot make no mistakes ilk God. Then Descartes wage hiked a question that ass he complain that the will or fire choice he have received from God is insufficient ly ample or perfect(547).After apply paragraphs talking about it, Descartes perceived that the power of willing is not the cause of his errors, for it is most ample as well as perfect in its kind(548). This idea is similar to Augustines ides in On informal Choice of the Will. Then he thought if he held off from making a judgment when he do not perceive what is true with sufficient clarity and distinctness, it is cleat that he was acting correctly and not committing an error(548).In the end, he said he would indeed attain it if only he paying(a) enough attention to solely the things that he perfectly understand, and separate them off from the rest, which he apprehended more confusedly and more obscurely(549). Descartes talked about the essence of material things and prove that God exists again. Descartes said that it is obvious that whatsoever is true is something, and he have already demonstrated at some length that all that he know clearly is true(550).Then he thought that it is obvious to anyone who pays close attention that existence can no more be separated from Gods essence than its having three angles equal to two right angles can be separated from the essence of a triangle(551). So existent belongs to the essence of God. Descartes can no more trust of God as not existing than he can think of mountain without a valley(550). Actually, I do really agree with Descartes prove process, even if I do not agree with some of his conclusion. I think the way he prove things is rational and tenacious.He thought we should raise some ideas which he has no doubt about it. Then he use them to prove things. It just like what Euclid did in Elements. Raise some Axioms first, then use them to prove all others and build the whole system. Elements presents them in a single, logically coherent framework, making it unaccented to use and easy to reference(3). only the key point to get a true conclusion and build a logical system is to find the correct Axioms or foundat ions. I have to say that Axioms or foundations changes because of the religion and the cultivation of science.For example, the Axioms of the theory of relativity argon different from the classical physics Axioms because human know more about the nature. Descartes thought that necessary existence belongs to the essence of God in Meditation Five, and take it as a foundation. But there must be someone does not think so. He thought that because of his brief. But someone may not believe in God. I think Axioms or foundations might be various depends on individual difference and timed difference.But I think if you can raise your own Axioms or foundations build a logical system and make sense, it well be genuine for sure. We cannot get the truth straightly, it just like we climb up cockle stairs. And all Axioms and foundations and knowledge systems which are built by different foundations does contribute to achieving the truth. Without the old foundations and the system built by them, we cannot have unsanded recognizing and raise new foundations to build new system and approach the truth.

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