Descartes Dreaming Argument Analysis
In Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, I will be considering the “dreaming argument” if Descartes’s resolution seems acceptable to believe. In the First Meditation is where the “dreaming argument” is first mentioned and then later he has resolved the argument in the Sixth Meditation and the Objections and Replies. I will be touching on the idea that our experiences could be dreaming experiences based on personal experiences and thoughts I have had on the topic. Then I will go on to explain how it is possible to tell which state you are in. This will be based off of what I know is true due to what I have learned and experienced. I believe that Descartes’s resolution is adequate and in this paper I will explain why.
The First Meditation …show more content…
The Meditator does not come to understand until later in his meditations, after the more he has figured out more about other things in the world such as ideas and whether they were innate, self-generated, or adventitious. It takes him to comprehend that God is innate and that God will not deceive him. God can only do good and to mislead the Meditator to believe his dreams were real life experiences would be wicked, which God cannot be. The Meditator also comes to realize that God then would not be able to have him make false judgements and falsely stating that dreams were actual experiences would, then again, simply not be possible due to the statement he made about how God makes him so that is not capable of making these wrong judgements. With these factors playing in and the actual knowledge of what is humanly capable, help to determine that dreams are just simply not reality. He had to think about dreams and what took place in them for the Meditator to then question if that would/could truly happen. People who just show up out of nowhere happens all the time in dreams but then if that were to happen in real life it would be uncommon and we would question it. What makes it so clear that dreams are just dreams is exactly that. The unordinary can happen in a dream. Reading through the First Meditation there are points in it that I can agree with the Meditator. Such as, our senses can deceive us. Objects that are positioned strangely or in the distance can look like something but actually be something completely different than what we perceived it to be. That is a lot like our dreams. It could seem like you are, as the Meditator puts it, “in my dressing-gown, sitting by the fire” when in fact he is nowhere by a fire he is in bed sleeping. The part
The First Meditation …show more content…
The Meditator does not come to understand until later in his meditations, after the more he has figured out more about other things in the world such as ideas and whether they were innate, self-generated, or adventitious. It takes him to comprehend that God is innate and that God will not deceive him. God can only do good and to mislead the Meditator to believe his dreams were real life experiences would be wicked, which God cannot be. The Meditator also comes to realize that God then would not be able to have him make false judgements and falsely stating that dreams were actual experiences would, then again, simply not be possible due to the statement he made about how God makes him so that is not capable of making these wrong judgements. With these factors playing in and the actual knowledge of what is humanly capable, help to determine that dreams are just simply not reality. He had to think about dreams and what took place in them for the Meditator to then question if that would/could truly happen. People who just show up out of nowhere happens all the time in dreams but then if that were to happen in real life it would be uncommon and we would question it. What makes it so clear that dreams are just dreams is exactly that. The unordinary can happen in a dream. Reading through the First Meditation there are points in it that I can agree with the Meditator. Such as, our senses can deceive us. Objects that are positioned strangely or in the distance can look like something but actually be something completely different than what we perceived it to be. That is a lot like our dreams. It could seem like you are, as the Meditator puts it, “in my dressing-gown, sitting by the fire” when in fact he is nowhere by a fire he is in bed sleeping. The part