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Descartes

Descartes

[All page references and quotations from the Meditations are 
taken from the 1995 Everyman edition] 
 
In the Meditations, Descartes embarks upon what Bernard Williams 
has called the project of 'Pure Enquiry' to discover certain, 
indubitable foundations for knowledge. By subjecting  everything 
to doubt Descartes hoped to discover whatever was immune to it. 
In order to best understand how and why Descartes builds his 
epistemological system up from his foundations in the way that he 
does, it is helpful to gain an understanding of the intellectual 
background of the 17th century that provided the motivation for 
his work. 
 
We can discern three distinct influences on Descartes, three 
conflicting world-views that fought for prominence in his day. 
The first was what remained of the mediaeval scholastic 
philosophy, largely based on Aristotelian science and Christian 
theology. Descartes had been taught according to this outlook 
during his time at the Jesuit college La Flech_ and it had an 
important influence on his work, as we shall see later. The 
second was the scepticism that had made a sudden impact on the 
intellectual world, mainly as a reaction to the scholastic 
outlook. This scepticism was strongly influenced by the work of 
the

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