Descartes as a Sceptic

Burak Emrah Aydın

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Descartes As A Sceptic

Descartes as a skeptic philosopher try to explain us his new ways and benefits of them in a short writing. As example, in a short topic, he thinks that if we start the research from the starting of everyhthing we can reach more accurate consequences. Moreover, he has ideas in the science of the medicine as he thinks that there are a lot of knowledge of the cure of illnesses and he thinks we can find these cures with the help of big brains as they are classified of their expertises and make them work on the fields in which they have been specialized. And he says that more he learned, more he saw that more experiments are to be made more necessary.

At first point, he thinks that if we want the understand principles of everything in our environment we should start thinking from the beginning but he explains this with his own words “First I tried to discover in general the principles or first causes of everything that does or can exist in the world” and adds this “for this I didn’t look beyond the god” he explains of the choosing this way as the way of reaching the accurate truth: with the help of this method we can’t make the fore mistakes which made by the forerunners and we can discover more details of the matter which we are working on.

Secondly, after the first statements he says “Since then, however, other thoughts have occurred to me that have made me change my mind and think that my policy should be this:….”

We understand that he then chooses thinking a lot on his experiments and ideas before he send them to be published. Moreover he explains this care. He thinks that he can examine more and more with the help of this method and secondly he can that if it is for the benefit of the public or not.

So on, in the light of his ideas, for the benefit of the public and mankind he made a decision which is; he must force the people who virtuous to help the advance of the science and the...