Analysis Of Descartes Second Meditation

How can anyone actually prove the existence of an external world? Through senses? The mind? Or should it be simple taken on faith? In Descartes’ Second Meditation, the philosopher challenges the basis of all knowledge and questions how senses can deceive one’s abilities to perceive the outside world. Moreover, the author asserts that it even difficult to prove whether one is living in reality or a dream. While Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason demanded proof (and called anything less than proof a “scandal”), his theory was based on the mind’s interpretation of what the senses experience, and humans experience only the interpretations of objects, not the reality. In “Proof of an External World,” G.E. Moore counters that Kant was unable to