DISCOURSE ON METHODS AND MEDIATIONS

Discourse on methods and Mediations



Introduction

Rene Descartes, made ??his studies with the Jesuits in 1616 and completed his graduation with law degree. Convinced with a unity of knowledge, meeting in a universal mathematics, he built the reasonable logic of thinking that is deduction and intuition guides' only obvious reason, become basic premise. When invited to settle in the court of Christina of Sweden, Rene Descartes died shortly after his arrival.

Discussion and Analysis

With Rene Descartes speech metaphysical, it attempts to prove the existence of God and asserts that all truths derive from him. Emphasizing the notion of free will, it redefines the moral and ethical applications. In this paper, we will discuss some points in the speech of the method, we analyze the provisional moral, essential differences between the discourse on method and meditations as well as analysis of the heart in the speech, and we will see how this analysis sheds light on the general function of discourse. The problem of Descartes is the foundation of knowledge (Gaukroger 2007).

He volunteered to check the validity of all the knowledge he has acquired. The school transmits knowledge in a dogmatic fashion. What Descartes is proposing is to examine how this knowledge is as one. It is therefore to find a basis of knowledge other than the credibility of teachers.

In everyday life, doubt is simply a temporary uncertainty that is degenerated by choosing the most probable opinion. The others are often interviewed to dismiss these doubts. In contrast, the "hyperbolic doubt" is an intellectual experience that is constantly increasing doubt by requiring absolute certainty that will never be based on agreement with others.

The Starting Point of the metaphysics of Descartes is doubt. This metaphysics is not formed by a set of statements that could be presented in any order. It consists of a series of moments, each of which involves intellectual preceded and one that leads to the followings post. It is therefore presented as a series of lived approaches, which follow naturally in an order cannot be modified. We have, indeed, several presentations: that the fourth part of the Discourse on Method, one of Meditations, one of the first parts of the Principles of philosophy. But with some differences as well as regards, the order of the various proofs of the existence of God, these presentations follow the same path and goal with a few exceptions. Each ...