Sunday, February 10, 2008
Descartes Discourse on Methods Part 4/ Paragraphs 39-40
In the ending of part four I get confused when Descartes says that ideas that contain falsity is because we are not perfect. However, he said that God is all perfect and all truthful. In this section he also says that once we are certain about God and the Soul it is very easy to know that the dreams we have while asleep in no way make us doubt the truth we have while awake. I think he is saying that once you believe in the existence of God, you should not doubt your dreams, you should put them into consideration. Being asleep should not prevent its being true. He also said that we should never allow ourselves to be presuaded except by the evidence of our reason, which also confused me. I do not really understand what he meant.
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I think he ment that you should always have a reason for thinking what you believe. I agree with you about him thinking that God is "all perfect and all knowing" because he states that in my section as well and also said how nothing can be as perfect as God is.
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