Descarte's Discourse on Method

Descartes’ method is something that many have tried to examine. We can only do out best to view Descartes’ yardstick for measuring reality and truth and then compare our own yardstick to Descartes and to the world. Descartes purpose was to make people think deeper, to penetrate the walls and go outside of the box which you live in. He clearly states that he is not trying to teach his method, but only to describe how he has conducted his own (28). The next argument is how valid is his use of logic, and how do his conclusions compare to mine. The fundamental principles of thought that Descartes examines are highly intellectual.
I believe that Descartes method first relates to being a mathematician. Mathematics has what is thought to be pure and concrete answers, where as life does not have concrete answers of existence and how to books. Descartes even says on page 31 “Above all I enjoyed mathematics, because of the certainty and self-evidence of its reasoning”. In math a...