Renee Descartes' Meditations concern the philosopher's search for absolute knowledge. He wishes to find only those truths which, to him, exist as clear and distinct. In attempting this, Descartes reasons his knowledge of himself and of an infinitely perfect being, and utilizes these revelations to extrapolate more knowledge about the world and the nature of existence. Utilizing only self-evident insight and reasoning, Descartes intends to create a model of truth which rests only in those truths which are clear and distinct; an indestructible system of knowledge. Descartes' notion of knowledge, founded on the absolute knowledge of the self and ultimately a corporeal world, justified by the existence of God, provides an intriguing insight into the idea of truth and what man can claim as absolute knowledge.
Descartes' notion of knowledge begins with the question of absolute certainty. In his search for that which can be defined as "knowledge", Descartes accepts only that which is......
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