Descartes, father of modern philosophy, lived during the Scientific Revolution. The scientific revolution moved away from religion and focused more on science. Descartes wanted to change the traditional way of learning, which was the Aristotelian way of learning. Descartes created his Meditations on First Philosophy, by publishing these works he hoped to provide a solid anchor for all sciences and all knowledge in order to discover all truths. Descartes created a total of six meditations but we have only studied one, two and three; therefore, I will analyze the ones we discussed in class in order to understand what Descartes is trying to express. The first meditation is: “Concerning those things which may be doubted.” In this first meditation, Descartes begins by explaining that in youth everyone has false ideas; for example, before the Middle Ages, people believed that the world was flat, but thanks to many explorers like Magellan, they introduced the fact that the world was round. The fact is that early people thought the world was flat and were later proven wrong. Incidents like this motivated Descartes to note: "to doubt all things, especially material things, as long as, of course, we have no other foundations for the sciences than those we have had until 'now'. [1]The question now is how can we doubt everything? Descartes claims that we are deceived by our minds, meaning that we don't really know what is false or not. For example, on a hot day you look at the ground from a distance and think you see water, but in reality you see heat rising from the ground which at a certain angle looks like water, but when you get closer , you can't see the ground. water. Furthermore, Descartes that...... middle of paper...... God is real. Descartes claims that if an evil god exists and this evil power always deceives him, then it must be real. He thought that since he is able to think of a god, then God must be real, but he keeps in mind that he is probably not the first to think of God. Descartes explains that he is not an infinite thing but that God is infinite because the thought of him continues. In conclusion, Descartes' efforts to change the traditional way of learning were not as successful, but because he had such unique ways of thinking, he was considered the father of modern philosophy. I think because of his confused thoughts of doubting everything, even something that may be 100% correct, doubting it again, and then saying forget everything doubting to prove that (it's i.e. God) something really exists. Personally, I don't think this is a logical way to learn.