"I have no confidence in any of philosophy's results or in my ability to improve that situation." Descartes said this line near the end of the first part and I find this to be my favorite line during the whole reading.
Not only did I enjoy his 'method' and the discussion of his method (I could actually understand it all fairly well rather than have to try and rack my brain in order to comprehend it), but I just enjoyed the personality he placed in this selection as well. He placed this humility in juxtaposition with a pushing for his ideas and style. It was almost comical that he would constantly stop to remind us, the reader, that these ideas worked for him and may not work for us. Like a disclosure.
The idea that God exists and how he went about proving God was interesting as well. It seems like other people have used this idea to say God exists, that because we have perfections and imperfections, another being more perfect than us must been the one who has planted these into us. But this being can't have intelligence (though he does have something there) nor does he have a body. I found that idea different as well: God does not have intelligence nor a body because those are imperfections and God is perfect in every way. Hmm. Truly something to think upon...
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