2016.Sep <Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy>
"I think, I exist"
Is there any causality? I don't think the way of understanding this sentence like: I think, therefore I exist. I know that I exist because I perceive that I am thinking, however, I exist while I am thinking. They happen spontaneously rather than in order.
If I know I exist while I am thinking, how I know others exist?
The existence of God
God is infinite and beyond our comprehensions.
"Whatever is revealed to me by the natural light." Pascal mentioned natural light in this pensee too. Aquinas used this word too. What is the natural light?
"By the word 'God' I understand a substance that is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else that exists."
"The unity, and simplicity, or the inseparability of all the understand of God is one of the most important of the perfections which I understand him to have." Why is the unity, simplicity rather than some other attributes? Descartes also said he could not imagine there are two Gods thus the God only can be one? Are those thoughts affected by his geometry?
What is the human, and what is the mean between God and nothing?
Descartes claims that "the scope of the will is wider than that of the intellect" It is very interesting that Descartes brings up the distance between intelligent and freedom
Opening Question:
Sep.1st #17 What is necessary to the stability of the sciences?
"I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last."
Sep.5th #54 What does it mean by Descartes?
"I realise that I am, as it were, something intermediate between God and nothingness....."
Is there any causality? I don't think the way of understanding this sentence like: I think, therefore I exist. I know that I exist because I perceive that I am thinking, however, I exist while I am thinking. They happen spontaneously rather than in order.
If I know I exist while I am thinking, how I know others exist?
The existence of God
God is infinite and beyond our comprehensions.
"Whatever is revealed to me by the natural light." Pascal mentioned natural light in this pensee too. Aquinas used this word too. What is the natural light?
"By the word 'God' I understand a substance that is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else that exists."
"The unity, and simplicity, or the inseparability of all the understand of God is one of the most important of the perfections which I understand him to have." Why is the unity, simplicity rather than some other attributes? Descartes also said he could not imagine there are two Gods thus the God only can be one? Are those thoughts affected by his geometry?
What is the human, and what is the mean between God and nothing?
Descartes claims that "the scope of the will is wider than that of the intellect" It is very interesting that Descartes brings up the distance between intelligent and freedom
Opening Question:
Sep.1st #17 What is necessary to the stability of the sciences?
"I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last."
Sep.5th #54 What does it mean by Descartes?
"I realise that I am, as it were, something intermediate between God and nothingness....."
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