Today's post speaks about power as well, however I thought this time I would take a conversation from my philosophy class and spin it into a blog session over power. The argument dealt with Descartes and his discussion about the existence of a physical world. He claimed in his early Meditation writings that the only thing we can prove exists is our mind, rather than our body. He claims that we can't prove the existence of our bodies and other things that only exist physically, but can prove the existence of our mind based on the idea of processing thoughts. This all has to do with the idea of an existence of one all-powerful being, or God. Is it possible that the God, or all-powerful being that you believe in, could be so powerful that he convinces us these realities exist? Or would that be going against the notion of a perfect being to corrupt our thoughts?
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