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| process of withholding assent without sufficient evidence.not the same as doubting anything/everything |
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| What did Descartes write? |
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| Meditations on first philosophy |
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| Why does Descartes undertake his project of systematic doubt in meditations? |
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| Does descartes undertake seem reasonable? why or why not? |
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| What does descartes mean when he says "I think therefore i am." Is this a convincing conclusion? |
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| Who does descartes resemble when he sets out to prove certainty? |
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| Descartes resembles skepticism. He wants to try and prove anything with absolute certainty. Although in the background with Descartes, science always remains. |
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| A way of eliminating any and all doubt about a certain subject. You move slowly through every aspect that could be brought up for discussion to come to absolute certainty. |
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| We cannot avoid the possibility that we might be dreaming. In dreams we often blur the difference between reality and a dream. Our experiences in dreams are also very similar to reality as they are sensory experiences |
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| Wax has certain characteristics once it is immediately taken from a beehive. Although once we melt it we still consider it wax. |
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| I can doubt the veracity of what i am thinking, but i cannot doubt the fact that i am doubting. |
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| What is hobbes view of human nature? what kind of creature does he view us as? |
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| Hobbes typically views human nature as cruel and evil. it is not a very poistiive outlook on life at all. he thinks that men are evil and selfish creatures. we are equally weak, frail and kill each other. |
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| What does hobbes mean when he says that life is nasty, brutish and short? |
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| He says this because typically we live in fear of each other, we always take advantage of each other, and we take what we want when we want it without the regards of others. We will for the most part abandon anyone who gets in our way of power/money. And for the most part we are only alive for a very short amount of time. |
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| what is the war of all against all and how do we address this problem? |
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| This is Hobbes idea if there were no government or laws and everyones had absolute freedom. This would be the result of no authority, everyone would fight for his or herself and everyone would potentially be afraid of each other or even going out the door. We all sign basically a silent contract that says we will give up some of our rights to have a sense of security. |
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| Hobbes, memory, experience and dreams |
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1. memory is the leftover remnants of sensation.
2. experience is the accretion of the memory of certain things.
3. Dreams are the results of our imagination in sleep.
These all being with motion and sensation |
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