Compare/contrast Descartes’ method for coming to know truth (in Meditation 1) with Schopenhauer’s method for coming to know truth (in “On Thinking for Yourself”). Which method do you think has the greater likelihood of success?
Your answer to the question must not only present your own considered opinion on the matter, but must have a basis in the readings for the course, and be formulated so as to include at least:
1. a comparative examination of two or three different possible answers to the question;
2. a critical analysis of your own position which identifies potential weaknesses in the position and explains what makes that position nevertheless superior in some way to the others considered; and
3. specific reference to ideas, insights, and/or arguments presented by the philosophers assigned in the prompt.
NO INTERNET SOURCES!!!
ONLY CITE FROM:
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
&
Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
