In this chapter we realize that there are some philosophers that contradict each other, or well have similar thoughts. In this chapter I was amazed by the thinkings of the french philosopher René Descartes. The thing I was most amazed of was the one where he says that everything even us form part of a dream. That’s when I started to think that eventhough he defends his sayings by telling many other things, I do not agree with him. First of all how reality can be part of a dream if we are alive and have a soul or who can say that there are two people playing a game and we are part of it (the players are the God and the devil), how can you prove it.
I think that we are alive and we are in a reality not in a dream, we are people that have the ability to think, dream and interact with many other people that have almost the same characteristics as us.
Where I do agree with Descartes is with his famous quote “I think, therefore I am”. , This quote proves us that we actually exist and therefore I think this help us realize that we are real, exist and therefore are part of a reality and not a dream.
Each of us can have different points of view, but this is how I see it. In resume, with just the simple fact that because we have a soul, we exist and believe in a god we are part of reality nor a dream. Happy holidays!
Martin, I think that in what you believe is very important in the topics in this chapter. I really agree with Descartes. I am catholic of course I believe that this is real world and not an illusion. The people that think that is an illusion believe in a very different religion or simply they think that they are in another world, (with all my respect).
ResponderEliminarHey Martin, I agree that we don’t live in a dream; it is somehow weird to think that all the things that surround us are part of a dream. Also, you mentioned Descartes quote, I agree it helped show that we exist, we are aware we are real in this world. It would be strange after this quote to think we live in a dream, it is not very logic that I could say, hey martin, you are part of my dream, because I am aware I exist, and well, you could say the same thing.
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