Rene Descartes Meditation On First Philosophy Analysis

In Rene Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, he is trying to clarify and conceive that we are more than just a form by means of mass. He does thus through generating the perception of the ‘I’ – or ego. He reasons that the ‘I’ – or self – occurs through the method of reason. He starts his meditations by means of discarding all his individual ideas and depending on on undeveloped principles which can form any certainty. He is doing this to find any doubt or uncertainties. Doubt is vital when establishing a concept with the purpose of being certain that there is no deception. Descartes states that everything you observe as being right you have learnt through your senses. You only identify what you are knowing since you have sensed it