Rene Descartes Certainty

Epistemology is the theory of knowledge, which describes the scope, the source, and the perspective of human knowledge. When we talk about certainty, what would it be? It can be opinion or knowledge. However, opinion is not secured for certainty since we give our own views based on what we know. Knowledge is more accurate for certainty because it enables an individual to think critically and make rational choices in our daily life. Rene Descartes was a French Philosopher who concerned to meet “the need to achieve certainty”. In this paper, I will examine the argument that Descartes tried to reach certainty in the first three meditations of “Meditation on the First Philosophy”. He first doubted knowledge base on what he has assumed, he then

Innate idea represents inside of him which he was born with. Adventitious idea defines that outside of him. Also, he clearly perceives the ideas of producing by himself from real things. As noted from Descartes’ idea, he demonstrates that the idea of God is one of a being who is "eternal, infinite, omniscient, omnipotent, and the Creator of all things that exist apart from him" (“Meditation III”). This is a profound example to show that the essence of God. God is innate because God is so perfect and independence. Also, Descartes certainties include him and writes, “ [he has] no difficulty in understanding that they could be put together from the ideas [he has] of himself, of corporeal things and of God, even if the world contained no men besides me, no animals and no angels” (“Meditation III”). This statement reflects back to the example of wax and the example of dreaming at night. Descartes is trying to say that he can determine the things through image of things, sensory, and emotional. Moreover, Descartes classifies as a thinking being, is capable of conceiving a supreme being from God and has no difficulty to understand the existence of