Descartes On Religion

The meaning of life is to find the meaning of life. Is it not? We all go through each day trying to figure out which road out the infinite amount of paths will lead us in a better direction where happiness is prominent and society is flawless. However, not every single human being is going to fit on that narrow, one-lane highway to success. Bad choices, accidents, fate, family matters, society, temptation, anger, rage, addiction, and loss of hope can all be deciding factors in opting to choose that wrong path to self-destruction. The adverse thing is, once you've traveled so far down the road, you get so discouraged that you feel like you can never turn back or make up for the "lost time."

René Descartes believed that the mind and body are separate; that the senses could not always be trusted, but that because we as humans are able to think about our existence, we possess some sort of entity separate than our fleshly body. I believe this separate entity to be a soul”an immaterial and

The Christian world view on life meaning and purpose is basic and yet different from other world views. Our main resolution in life is to work for God and have a strong connection with him at all times. First and foremost God desires to come first, and all else will tumble into place as long as we believe in him and have complete faith in him also. It is printed that we can only have one master (Matthew 6:24) and for that reason, God believes that serving him must be the highest significant thing for us to do with our period here on earth. (Christian Bible Reference Site)

Descartes philosophical meditations offer a window into his beliefs on God and his perceptions. He begins his first meditation by describing his Madness and Dream arguments, which outline his doubts in his own perceptions. He wants to be acutely aware of deception as he moves forward because he has no way of determining when his perceptions are true and when his perceptions are false. Moving through his other meditations, he discusses the idea of truth, goodness, and the existence of God, ending his sixth meditation with the acknowledgement that God would not deceive him, so he must not worry about his perceptions being true anymore. From there, Descartes is not deeply concerned about the truth of his perception of the world. However, upon

Summary: The problem of the soul continues as Descartes suggested that the human is composed of two completely different substances; a physical body which Descartes compares with a machine, and a non-physical mind, related to the soul, that allows humans to think and feel even if it has no “measurable dimensions” (67). But Elizabeth put in doubt his ideologies when she realized that a non-physical thing doesn’t have the strength to push and move the body. This led to several questions unanswered and also let space for other materialist theories such as behaviorism, mind-brain identity, and functionalism, which also fail in offering an explicit solution.

In this essay it will be argued that the soul is mortal and does not survive the death of the body. As support, the following arguments from Lucretius will be examined: the “proof from the atomic structure of the soul,” the “proof from parallelism of mind and body,” the “proof from the sympatheia of mind and body,” and the “proof from the structural connection between mind and body.” The following arguments from Plato will be used as counterarguments against Lucretius: the “cyclical argument,” the “affinity argument,” the “argument from the form of life,” and the “recollection argument.” It will be shown that Plato’s premises lack validity and that Lucretius’

Taking into account what we have read about our knowledge of the world around us, can you say that you know the world around you?

There is a lot one can one can accomplish in life if we realized there's probably nothing we can’t do once we uniquely set our minds on doing them. And who are you, and what you do is very important to God. God put you together very uniquely so that you can have an influence not necessarily on the whole world but at least on one person. Were then made on purpose and to be able to fulfill a unique purpose in life, as designed by God. Proverbs 20:5 tells us; “The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.” Genesis 1:27 informs us that, we are made

Descartes uses the trademark argument as a way to eventually prove that our clear and distinct ideas are true and real, but he follows a specifically in-line methodology to get to this conclusion first. To begin his argument, he says simply says that he clearly has an idea of God, but he quickly segues this into the point that everything of existence, including his idea of God, has a cause. So if everything that exists has a cause, and it is understood that something cannot come from nothing, where does this idea come from? Descartes goes then to say that ideas of every kind must be of the same reality rooted in the cause of the idea, or where it came from, that is in the effect of the idea, which is the mind having the perception of the idea or thing; this concept is independently called the Reality Principle. He says this more simply by portraying that if we know an idea, then the thing that caused the idea must always have the same reality to produce the idea itself; this concept, or argument, essentially proves God exists as the idea of God has no other way to come about other than through God himself. Descartes then proves that God is not a deceiver by showing that the beginning of anything must come from God, due, again, to the concept that ideas or objects cannot be consequent of nothingness or randomness, and that because truth is the base and beginning of all ideas and knowledge, deceit cannot be from God, as God is perfect and true and deceitfulness cannot exist

To Descartes, in order to exists as a being, there needs to be someone far more perfect that created us and in Meditations, Objections, and Replies, Rene Descartes’ argues the reason why God exists through three proofs, First, for example. Descartes says that these proofs all lead him to believe that God ultimately exists for those reasons but he isn’t completely certain if they are accurate.

Although like myself there may be many who may be unsure of who and what they aspire to be. To be able to do things with a purpose behind it is what gets you closer to where you want to go.one of my most important life goals is to find my life’s purpose. It is becoming increasingly apparent that knowing and living one's life purpose is the most crucial step forward in any individual's path of development. When you are "living on purpose" then all those problems fly out the window, life's a gas, and it even becomes possible to actually get some "law of attraction" results because you are then indeed creating your life. And yet ,most people could not tell you what really fires them up, makes them who they are, and spurs them into action in their life - because there isn't anything. Their life purpose is not conscious to them or they haven't created it

Because Descartes wants to find an absolute correct thing to be the starting point of philosophical reflection. Rather than an objective purpose, doubt for him is just a way to discover a truly reliable objective, a basis of all knowledge, which cannot be denied by any means. Descartes supposes that the reason why people always have different opinions about politics; art, religion and so on is because there is plenty of incorrect knowledge existing and spreading in this world. But if so, how can we solve this problem by sorting out the incorrect knowledge while keeping the correct ones? There, Descartes puts forward this method which is to find the real truth by doubting all existing knowledge and discarding those which have the possibility

Within his work, Descartes presents the causal argument, in which he demonstrates the idea that God must exist because everything with an affect must have a cause . This is one approach that Descartes uses to show the proof of God. By the end of meditation two, following onto meditation three Descartes concludes that we as humans are considered as a ‘res cognitas’ in which we are recognised as a thinking thing. However due to humans being known as the ‘res cognitas’ that means God is the ‘perfect being’. Descartes uses this to prove the existence of God, because it takes his view that anything with an effect must have a cause, in terms that we as humans are the affect concluding that God is the cause. The argument entitles that God is

What is life about? Just living, or maybe giving or something else. At this point the question goes differently just as all of us are different. All of us see life differently and as well the goals are different. Though there is something in common we all have. We all want to be happy in this world. Some people believe that love gives happiness, another wealth...All with different concept. They spend most of their time and energy to get it. But it does not give a guaranty of satisfaction. Meanwhile it could give you basic comforts of life.

Many people believe that they are here to play one specific role in life. It ranges from being a doctor, a husband, or even a soldier. For instance, my mother may think that she is here to be a loving, caring mother to her three daughters, but she has many more roles than that. She is a mother to my sisters and I, a sister to her siblings, a daughter to her parents, and a boss to her employers. We are all here to play multiple roles in all of the lives that we touch everyday just like myself.