Pros And Cons Of Rene Descartes

1. According to Descartes, the reason for hyperbolic doubt is to handle what he believes to be doubting everything. He feels if you were to doubt everything, you will a better base for true knowledge. He uses the example of Illusions, Dreams, and Evil Demons. Since Illusions and Dreams are a part of evil demons, if you were to defeated the evil demon you would also conquer Illusions and dreams. Descartes also explains if God were to exist, he wouldn’t allow an Evil Demon to trick us.
Descartes begins to form a better form of his beliefs. He is able to break apart and see what he thinks is true and false.

2. Baron d’Holbach thinks that free will doesn’t exist. D’Holbach states that even though humans are bounded by shackles, they pretend
Either you believe you are in control of your actions or events are all set in advance. Even though both views are related to the universe, they have opposite standpoints. 5. Decartes claims “I exist, I am, so long as I’m thinking”, this is when Decartes begins to stop believe everything he’s used to trusting. Descartes starts to doubt everything and then he’s left with himself in the end. However, to doubt everything you still have to believe in existence. He is still able to doubt everything he wants and still be aware of his existence in the universe. He thinks about whatever he pleases, because he knows of his presence. For Decartes this helps him to worry less due to the fact he knows of his existence.
6. Hard determinist don’t believe people are responsible for their actions, but soft determinism do. Hard determinist don’t believe in free will, while soft determinist believe it exists. Soft determinist allow for free action instead of events caused. Hard determinist trust that humans are responsible for their actions because it going to happen to past events. There is nothing that can change what’s going to happen since it