Descartes Skepticism In Meditations

Descartes’s overall goal in Meditation one is to find certainty in a world full of deceit. To do this, he demolishes all of his prior knowledge to the foundations and rebuild. He is searching for one principle in life to be completely true no matter what. He is looking for that one certainty, that is free of any skepticism. Skepticism is like a nagging voice in the back of one’s mind, always telling them to doubt and question, to find everything that could be considered false. It makes one question even the simplest of things. Descartes uses two parts of his personality, Hopeful and Doubtful, to show his opinion of scepticism. Hopeful remains positive despite any evidence that contradicts what it thinks. And Doubtful is the side of his mind that finds any and every way something could be a lie, In an attempt to find an absolute
Rationalism is the idea that reason alone is a source of knowledge and is separated from experience. Rationalism allows Descartes to think of all reasonable doubts and to find certainties. In Meditations One, his skeptical argument was that nothing must be real because everything is made by the same deceiving god, but with reasoning he can gain a certainty from that.
Descartes rational side having truly and so “thoroughly thinking the matter through [he] conclude[s]... this proposition, [he] is, [he] exist[s],must be true whenever [he] assert it or think it,” (4). To think he must exists and that can be certain. Even though the content he thinks about may be deceiving, he is still able to think making him real. This is a display of rationalism because despite what his senses were telling him he was able come to one absolute truth. Descartes was able to meet his goal to find at least once certainty with the help of