What did Descartes do in order to solidify his beliefs?
Use scepticism to tear them down, and rebuild them using method.
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How did Descartes die?
By waking up at 5am every day
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How did Descartes discover his philosophy?
He claims to have had visions whilst sitting in a room in Germany when he was in the army
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Descartes' most famous phrase?
cogito ergo sum - i think, therefore i am
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What is "The Evil Demon"?
A sceptical hypothesis whereby Descartes attempts to prove that we are not in control of our own lives, and that in fact there is an "Evil Demon" controlling us... This ideology is similar to "The Matrix"
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How does Descartes attempt to disprove the existence of "The Evil Demon"?
By proving the existence of God; if God exists he is supremely good and he would not deceive us
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What isLocal Doubt?
Doubts about a particular sense experience, or some other occurrence, at a particular point in time
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What is Global Doubt?
Doubt you cannot step out of, e.g the doubt that the world is as it seems to us (See Bertrand Russell's five minute hypothesis)
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What was Descartes' text called?
Back
Meditations
Card 3
Front
What did Descartes do in order to solidify his beliefs?
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