Rene Descartes was a famous mathematician who’s findings lead to geometry and algebra and became key figures in the science revolution. He was also one of the greatest and most influential French philosophers. He came up with the argument “I think therefore I am.” He arrived at this conclusion in his Meditation II. However some later philosophers disputed his argument, one being a man by the name M. Benjamin. But, to understand Benjamin’s argument we must first look at Descartes’ argument.

It all started with Galileo’s discovery that the sun was the center of the earth. Because his world somewhat came crashing down on him with this new discovery. Hw starts to doubt everything. He then sets out to find one truth. Descartes starts off his meditation by setting aside all his beliefs so he can firmly establish anything scientific. First he starts to disbelieve his senses. He feels that they have deceived him in the past just like anyone’s senses have. If a person deceives us even once it becomes hard to trust them again. He then goes gone to consider how his senses could be deceiving his since he feels that he is by the fire holding paper in his hand. Right away he counteracts his contradiction by stating that in dreams we’re not sure we’re dreaming of not. And if we cannot distinguish between the dream world and the real world then life could be a complete dream. He also considers whether he is insane or being deceived by an evil God. So he starts to realize that if he is dreaming or being deceived by an evil God that his beliefs are not true.

Now if we are dreaming then it is possible that we possess neither a body nor hands because they could just be illusions to us. However object that we see when we are sleeping must have come from somewhere, which means that any objects and our bodies are mere representations of things that exist in reality.

Then he goes into the argument that God created him but he may have arranged it so there is no sky, nor earth, nor any...