Descartes
How does Descartes try to extricate himself from the sceptical doubts that he has raised? Does he succeed?
In the Meditations, Descartes embarks upon what Bernard Williams has
called the project of 'Pure
Enquiry' to discover certain, indubitable foundations for knowledge. By
subjecting everything to
doubt Descartes hoped to discover whatever was immune to it. In order to
best understand how and
why Descartes builds his epistemological system up from his foundations
in the way …
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… is not a
little - is the knowledge of our own
existence each time we assert it. But Descartes' project should not be
judged by us as a failure - the
fact that he addressed topics of great and lasting interest, and
provided us with a method we can both
understand and utilise fruitfully, speaks for itself.
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**Bibliography**
[All page references and quotations from the Meditations are taken from
the 1995 Everyman edition]
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