Problem 1: What do the following terms mean and what is their significance within Descartes' Meditations?
- The light of nature / natural light
- Natural or spontaneous impulse
- The "cogito"
- Res cogitans
- Res extensa
- Substance
- Body
- Objective reality
- Formal or actual reality
Problem 2: Which fields of knowledge or "sciences" (physics, geometry, medicine, arithmetic) does the dreaming hypothesis bring into doubt? What knowledge, if any, can the dreaming hypothesis not bring into doubt?
Problem 3: What is the first thing that Descartes learns that even a supremely powerful evil spirit could never deceive him about? How does Descartes know that he cannot be deceived about it?
Problem 4: Skip four
Problem 5: According to Descartes, which of the following better known to me and why: God, my mind, my body?