Tag: Rene Descartes
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Descartes Fourth Embracing the Path of Enlightenment: A Buddhist Perspective on Certainty and Truth
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Descartes truth — the question of what grounds our knowledge of reality — is the central concern of the Fourth Meditation. Having established his own existence and proven God’s existence through the causal adequacy argument in the Third Meditation, Descartes now asks: given that God exists and is perfectly good, what does that tell us…
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Meditating with Descartes, Cogito and the Inseparable Thinker. His Second Meditation.
Are we really who we think we are? What is the sum of all our thoughts? What is god? These are all wonderful questions that mankind has been asking since beginingless time. Both western and eastern philosophers have wrestled with them but in slightly different ways. I want to explore how close western philosophers like…
