14 mar 2010

Am I Real?


DEscartes to me is the guy who suffered the most horrible existencialist crisis. He actually wondered wether he is real or just a dream. He thought that he could be only part of a dream, that it was possible that he din´t exist. He spend all his life thinking of these, it may seem unimportant to think about thies but that is just because we stopped wondering things, we think that our own existence is normal, so ther is no reason to star making question about this, but this guy did. After a lifetime of thinking about this, he came out with the solution, Cogito Ergo Sum. I think therfor I am, this is a quote we have all heard, but we dint knew why or what does it mean. It says that as im capable to think, I exist, this is the thing that differences me and a pillow. This is why he is called a rationalist, he believes that the way of knowing he exist is not because he can touch and feel stuff but because he can think. The mind is what really matters. We wondered about his existance because he dindt trust his senses, this means he is not an empirist and he is a rationalist.

2 comentarios:

  1. you express your points clearly and in an orderly fashion

    ResponderEliminar
  2. i like the way you explain descartes throught your points of view. I also like the part were you put cogito ergo sum!!!!is different from the other summeries

    ResponderEliminar