their decision on senses not the reason. Human beings are very weak when it comes to pleasures. Even though we want to act rightfully, our desires put too much pressure on our mind and many times we start to believe things that are false and unjust. Sometimes we can believe something just beacuse we want to believe it. You might believe something for reasons that are independent of the truth, the evidence, or clarity because it is easy, or comfortable, or pleasurable to believe it. We began making excuses for our actions justifing them just so our self or conscious will feel better. We use God’s gift of free will to our advantage even though we know it is wrong. The self is faced with many decisions, which according to Descartes are influenced both by our intellect and our will. Our intellect does not, on its own , declare certain ideas to be true or false. It simply puts forward and considers ideas without giving a verdict on those ideas. The intellect does not make judgments. Judgments are made when the idea put forwarded by the intellect are affirmed or denied by an act of the will. Error arises when the will affirms ideas that are not clear or distinct, and therefore makes a false judgment. Sometimes we might understand a thing or an idea without knowing what it is like. Our senses might be telling us one thing yet our reasoning another. When that happens we use our will to distinguish which is true. The self depends heavily on our mind, consisting of both senses and reasoning. When making choices based on reasoning we most likely opt to make a right decision and follow the right path. Therefore the self plays a huge role in our lives. It allows us to differ from one another, by letting us make the choices we feel are right for us. The self tends to put itself first in almost evry situation. Everything human beings do we do it to satisfy our self, a complex part of ourselves. ...
