Rene Descartes First Meditation Summary

Thesis Summary René Descartes begins his first meditation by calling all our current beliefs to suspicion. His purpose of this practice was to stripe away all the falsehoods that we have acquired since childhood by the use of our senses. He also wanted to build anew a stable foundation of beliefs that he can be certain are of undeniably truths. In Descartes work he mentions that our senses are not to be trusted, for they have deceived us once and surely will deceive us again. As he clearly stated in his meditation, “All that up to the present time I have accepted as most true and certain I have learned either from the senses or through the senses; it is sometimes proved to me that these senses are deceptive, and it is wiser not to trust entirely