l question: Am I dreaming? Yet, even now, most of us would claim that we are awake; however, while in a dream, on one actually believes that they are actually sleeping. Nevertheless, Decartes doesn't concretely prove that we are dreaming. He doesn't have to. Instead, he merely raises the point that, at any moment, we may be dreaming. Just by presenting this simple possibilty, Decartes successfully destroys all of our sensory beliefs. By proposing the "Dream and Illusion theory" Decartes is able to judge and maintain that all his former beliefs as false. Using doubt as a tool, he is able to clearly and distinctly perceive the idea of mind. The mind represented by "I". Inorder to proof his idea of "I" did not represent the self as in physical appearances he proposes the following statement, "Thus this, "I", that is to say the soul through which I am what I am, is entirely distinct from the body and is even easier to know than the body, and event if there there were no boy at all, it would not cease to be all that it is" (Cress, pg-19). Through this, he is able to reach the conclusion even though all things may be doubtful, the fact that we doubt is not doubtful. There is doubt, thinking; which is certain. It the doubt is certain, so would be the existence of the doubter or the thinker, too, must be certain. "Cogito ero, sum" concluded Decartes. "I think, therefore I am", Decarters states that this knowledge is the only certain one, which is not derived form either sense-percepation or imagination. Decartes makes his "Cogito ergo Sum" as the starting point of his proof for the existence of God. "I think, therefore I am" is an undisputed truth. For a thinker to exist, thought must exist. Through this notion he introduces the idea of God, which arises in his mind, "I doubted and that, as a consequece, my being was not utterly perfect (for I saw clearly that it is a greater perfection to know than to doubt), I decided to search...
