Reading Descarte’s ‘Cogito Ergo Sum’ theory (‘I am thinking, therefore I exist’) seems to me to be a very simple concept which also leads me into thinking Descarte has over thought his own theory. He is explaining that those who are able to think for themselves exist as beings which I agree with however it seems throughout reading his writing he goes deeper into the process of our thoughts and where our idea’s come from, this is where I believe he has become lost in his own thoughts. Clearly Descarte believes in a God which he brings up multiple times in his writing to make a comparison between ourselves and perfection (God), but reading his writing seems as though he is trying to join the ideas existing based on the simple fact that one is able to think with the concept that your existence is weighed based on your knowledge from person to person.

Although I disagree with the continuation to his theory on existence and what it takes to be perfect, I like that he is questioning perfection which he later realizes does not exist unless of course you are God “Thus I saw that God could not have doubt, inconstancy, sadness and the like, since I myself would have been very glad to be free from them, ·which shows that they are imperfections” because everyone experiences uncertainty and sadness which were the few human attributes he mentions to be signs of imperfection. As we all know there will always be someone smarter than you, just because this is not true does not make us any less of a person than they are.