Rene Descartes Research Paper

Do you know the true meaning of philosophy and how it have affected the thoughts of the way people think. Philosophy is a comprehensive system of ideas about human nature and the nature of the reality we live in. It is a guide for living, because the issues it addresses are basic and pervasive, determining the course we take in life and how we treat other people. Two we'll known philosophers have argued similar but different cirques as far as their experiences and knowledge. Descartes proposition is that only the mind can create certain knowledge and our senses are being attacked by the devil that betray us. Not to mention he is well known for the quote “I think therefore i am” (Descartes n.p) which is one of his main beliefs in philosophy. …show more content…
Rene Descartes was born on March 31st, 1696. He was born in La Haye en Touraine, France. Descartes was educated at Jesuit College, and received a degree in law by the age of twenty-two. Descartes applied rational methods and his knowledge of science, and his mathematical skill set in order to come up with his beliefs in philosophy. During the early 17th century Descartes was considered the father of modern philosophy by many people. His ideas depicted a wide range of getting to understanding the world and how it work using his educational background and his own thoughts. Descartes first explains his focus on doubt, and how thoughts and knowledge is innate in us. In Descartes thought that if our senses could be considered as deceiving or unstable, then the thoughts and knowledge that came to us through the senses are doubtful and the knowledge as we know it today is from the mind. Descartes portrayed that we are in an absent-minded state and the senses that we have deceives us. Descartes had strong beliefs that the knowledge of God is innate. Via experience and exposure, that could teach us the moral concepts and the background that is needed in order to understand and have the known knowledge and thoughts about God. How could God be innate, beings though the experience would be the basis for us to understand we would still have an idea about God. The way our minds work during our infancy and early …show more content…
Locke was born on Aug. 29, 1632 in Wrington in Somerset County. He was educated at Oxford University. Locke's most known work is an Essay that dealt with the Human Understanding which was published in 1690. It describes his theory/thoughts on how the mind functions while learning about the world. Locke goes against the doctrine of innate ideas, in which the ideas were considered to be part of the mind and not learned or attained later from other sources. Locke believed that most ideas were arranged in the mind by experience. He made it very clear that there were two types of experience, inner and outer. The experience of inner was obtained by thinking about the process psychologically and how it is involved in analyzing the data, which provided information about the mind. Outer experience on the other hand was obtained through the senses of taste, smell, touch, sight, and hearing, which helped provide knowledge about the external world. In contrast to what Descartes believes in locke believes, that our senses are not deceiving us because we are not in an absent-minded state. Knowledge can only be accomplished through the senses, rather than by some innate ideas that is made up in our mind. This conception of ideas that comes from our minds can cause some problems that were analyzed by Locke. For example, if one acquire this innate thought/knowledge in the mind, that person may have the recognition that this knowledge occur. Locke

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