Rene’ Descartes was a modern European thinker. Throughout his meditations he constantly implies that we are “things that think”. Our bodies, these things, are just a jumbled mess of flesh, blood and bone. It is thinking that creates the person. Thinking is what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. Skepticism is described as doubting everything and is a frequently used method by Descartes. He doubts the fact that he is really living; …showed first 75 words of 767 total…

…showed last 75 words of 767 total…cannot be felt in the body without the mind, and the mind cannot produce the pain without the body. Of all the philosophers and great thinkers I have studied, I would have to say that Descartes is my favorite. He has a great imagination about the mind and the body without being too creative. Descartes’ meditations are similar to the thoughts that I would come up with in my spare time, except his are far