Zusammenfassung der Ressource
meditation 2
- Meditations on First Philosophy
- Meditation #2
"The nature of
the human mind,
and how it is
better known
than the body
- "I think, therefore I am"
- Impossible to doubt that I am thinking
- Whenever I think
- I must exist
- Doubting is also a
thinking process
- What am I ?
- "I am a thinking thing"
- I
- have
- -arms
-face
-hands
- body
- It can be perceived
- shape, position, space
- do
- -eat.
-drink.
-perceive
-move
- THINK
- done by the soul=mind
- similar to wind or fire
- am I a man?
- What is a man?
- A rational animal?
- NO
- Wax Argument
- Wax
- Perceived by the senses
- -SIght
-smell
-touch
-hearing
-taste
- Hard, tastes
like honey,
scent of
flowers, cold
- BUT
- when put near fire
- Physical characteristics change
- Hence
- My senses deceive me once again
- Still the same wax
- What is it then?
- Extended, flexible and changeable body
- Not my imagination
- Perceived by the mind alone
- Many figures, shapes and lengths