Sunday, February 17, 2008
Meditations Six
I find it interesting how Descartes jumps around in this section. He begins by completely relying on his senses and believing they just came with him as a natural part of life, to completely losing faith in his senses, and back to relying on them again. He's somewhat contradicting himself based on his previous ideas on truth and doubt. That's where the issue of God comes in. I don't quite understand Descartes true position on God yet because he's so inconsistent with his thoughts, but it is almost as if he is using God as the basis for everything he has doubt it. By that I mean whatever he doesn't understand or he can't completely prove true, he uses God almost as a backup for his doubt. He wants to believe certain things are attainable, but really has no way to make sure of it. So his belief in God allows him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not sure if thats going to make complete sense to anyone else or not.
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I also had a hard to understanding on what "D"'s belief on God is or his part in his own beliefs. He jumps around a lot about God. He keeps saying God isn't a deceiver and there must be some kind of truth in certain things. It confused me a little bit. Because if you go back to the Discourse and he came up with the 4 rules to follow by. The one rule you must find truth behind everything to believe it but then he brings God in and says he wouldn't deceive us? I'm really confused.
Yea, at this point I can't really understand if he's going to go with God or his truth ideas.
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