Descartes

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Descartes

Descartes was an intellectual trail-blazer during the European Enlightenment of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He pioneered a radical movement which shook the traditional foundation of philosophy to expose widening cracks in previously unquestioned logic. Descartes warned the masses that what they had been raised to believe was knowledge may have been based upon flawed logic. Like many of his contemporaries, Descartes was questioning conventional beliefs, and when he found them to be lacking, began to explore alternative methods.
According to Descartes, nothing should be blindly accepted as the truth. Man must liberate his mind so that he may freely pursue that which is truly knowledge, and not merely a representation of knowledge. This is the central idea behind Descartes’ Meditations on the First Philosophy, which presents six arguments on how man can ‘free’ himself to recognize truth and the meaning of his existence. In the first meditation, Descartes’ stated categorically that he believed he had been misled by false knowledge that had passed itself off as being true. The only way to recognize knowledge is to constantly probe and prod it to make sure...

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