Zusammenfassung der Ressource
meditation 3
- Meditations First Philosophy
- Meditation #3
"In which are
demonstrated
the existence
of God and the
distinction
between the
human soul
and body"
- Clear and distinct perceptions
- whatever that is clear and
distinct must be true
- It concerns the Latin adjectives
clarus and distinctus the
corresponding French adjectives
clair and distinct and the
corresponding English adjectives
‘vivid’ and ‘clear’. Every other
translator of this work into English
has put ‘clear’ and ‘distinct’
- Clear
- ‘I call a perception claram when it
is present and accessible to the
attentive mind—just as we say that
we see something clare when it is
present to the eye’s gaze and
stimulates it with a sufficient
degree of strength and accessibility".
- Distinct
- "I call a perception
distinctam if, as well as
being clara, it is so sharply
separated from all other
perceptions that every part
of it is clarum"
- Theory of ideas
- We learn and perceive with the senses
- I did not peceive the thing by itself but instead I perceived the IDEA or the thought of it
- 1. Simply ideas
- images of things
- ideas of their own, can not be mistaken
- Sources
- innate
- Adventitious
- outside of us
- senses
- Can't change with will
- With the knowledge that I exist
- Because I doubt
- The sun is small according to our senses but astronomically it isn't
- Invented by me
- Mermaid and unicorn
- 2. Volitions and emotions
- affirmation or fear about ideas on objects
- there is only mistake on thinking that judgements resemble things outside the mind
- Mode of thought
- Substances
- GOD
- Objective reality
- "everything that comes into being must be made to be by
something that has an equal or greater amount of reality"
- something outside his mind exists.
- people
- the idea can easily be conceived, even if they don't exist
- animals
- angels
- Infinite actual being
- Conceived by the contrary of finite
- eternal
- independent
- supremely intelligent
- immutable
- TRUE
- Clear and distinct
- Idea
- I doubt = I'm not perfect
- The idea of God
- Put by someone else
- Because it is perfect
- Good
- Does not deceive me
- Body
- Thinking thing
- Exist by themselves
- Affection
- Attributes
- Body
- Extension
- Mind
- Thought
- Modes
- Idea
- Link between mind and world
- formal reality is the kind of reality things have in this
world
- objective reality is the reality of the objects
- Cogito
- Existance demonstrated by the fact that one thinks
- Sum res cogitans
- Cogito ergo sum
- I think therefore I exist
- Is he more mind than body?