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Week 3 Dis 6

Week 3 Dis 6

Q In the final Meditation, Descartes returned to the original theme of explaining the source of human skepticism. His answer was that doubt is a product of our own doing -- not the result of a systemic feature of the world we live in. We have the power to reduce our uncertainties by working hard, being honest and following the dictates of reason. The Meditations guarantee this. Do you accept Descartes' conclusion?

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Rene Descartes had an unflinching faith in the utility of skepticism and doubt in order to establish the validity of things around us. In this respect, he rejected even the idea of empiricism as the sole proof for the existence of things. Descartes views doubt as a form of thought which originates in the mind. This supposition provides for the proof of human existence.