1. The Concept of Self
Descartes and his meditations are in search of the answer to this question and he takes on a rational and skeptical mindset to find the answers. In Descartes first mediation, he introduces the idea that a malignant demon" may be intentionally misleading him or that he may be dreaming, but either way he is imagining or sensing. ... Sounds almost identical to Descartes but he puts his thumb-print on the idea as he introduces the idea of "tabula rasa". ... He is a little less extreme than Descartes. Descartes concluded in his meditations that he could not acquire knowledge through sensation b...
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