Significance Of The Cartesian Doubt

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KENYATTA UNIVERSITY Name: Peter Ouma Obilo Reg no: c01/0141/2010 Unit: ucu 103 (Introduction to creative and critical thinking) Lecturer: Qn; Demonstrate the significance of Cartesian Doubt in a person’s intellectual development. The main feature that distinguishes human beings from other animals is the human being’s ability to think and reason out issues. Human being’s mind are designed in a manner that it is in a position to receive, refuse, defy, affirm, doubt, understand, imagine and even feel any information around. It’s from these qualities of humans’ brain that human beings are always expected to design mechanisms to aid them understand things in life so that they don’t just accept things without finding the reality behind them. According to Descartes, in order to believe in claim, put by religion, politics, science and even philosophy, to be the truth, one must put such claims under strong reasoned doubt. This helps to unveil the reality behind everything, basing our argument that for you more about any issue, it’s advisable to take opposite stand regarding the issue. Cartesian Doubt is of significance to people’s intellectual development and helps him/her be in a good position to carry his/herself well in society. Such cases where this reasonable doubt is helpful to people intellectually include the following. In most cases we find ourselves as judges. When approached with two or more conflicting parties to make judgment and help them reconciliation, it’s always good to be fair in your judgment. To do this you need to put each party’s claims under reasonable doubt. It’s obvious that each party will defend themselves by saying their goods and the other party’s bad deeds. As a judge it’s of good to listen each party’s claims, put them reasonable doubts and it’s from such doubts that you ask questions that help you understand the underlying truth
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