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FIRST MEDITATION: On what can be called into doubt. Some years ago I was struck by how many false things I had believed, and by how doubtful was the structure of beliefs that I had based on them.
Meditations on First Philosophy Quotes Showing 1-30 of 34. “It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”. ― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy. tags: deception, lies, trust, truth. 153 likes.
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” ― René Descartes. tags: doubt, truth. 700 likes. Like. “I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
21 cze 2022 · Following quotes from The Meditations were taken from the John Veitch translation contained in the 1903 edition of The Meditations, and Selections from the Principles of René Descartes (1596-1650), unless noted otherwise. Meditation I. Of the Things Which We may Doubt.
Indeed, Descartes’s work was actually considered radical because it doubted God’s existence at all, and because it argued that reason—not faith—should be the foundation for human knowledge. In the Third Meditation, the Meditator presents a complex proof for God’s existence.
In the landmark Meditations on First Philosophy, the 17th-century French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher René Descartes presents purely rational arguments for the existence of God and the soul. His work, however, is better known for its method than its conclusions.
