Descartes: “I think, therefore I am”

« The first part is devoted to a detailed refutation of the belief that any of our knowledge is innate . The second part tries to answer the question   :«    How can we  acquired knowledge   ?   Locke is looking for unprejudiced readers to go beyond innate knowledge/ ideas.   First arguments        : He claims that if the theory of innate ideas were true, our sensory faculties would be  useless because knowledge would be imprinted on the mind. According to him, if we  were born with the ideas of colors, we would not need eyes, we would not need to  experience them, to see them.  Our ideas of colors, sounds, smells, tastes, and heat, Locke supposed, are acquired respectively through our eyes, ears, noses, tongues, and skin.

If innatism were true, we would not need senses.

Descartes established a theory : Dualism Soul : cognitive part : States that we don’t need body, because knowledge is directly in the soul.

Our eyes can lead us to make mistakes.

The body is completely useless.

Only the soul is necessary to reach knowledge.

Knowlegde is a part of the soul, we cannot distinguish knowledge from the soul.

The first knowledge we can have : He thinks so he exists.

This way of thinking, which correspond to the cognitive part is opposed to what we can called the corporeal part according to which the body is necessary to acquired knowledge.

Because of that, innate ideas are not proved but not disproved.. »