Montaigne claims that we should allow things to run their course because new discoveries or disciplines are not capable of leading us to certainty. Montaigne states that it is not possible to …show more content…
The senses are misleading because people, and animals, do not perceive or understand things in the same way that others do. This has to do with the breach between our ideas and reality. Our perceptions are misunderstood when we interpret incorrect meaning from our senses. We are able to receive pictures, but our minds are unable to make the connections between these pictures, and the true meanings of them. Once receiving the information, we are also “unable to determine which of them [we are able to] trust”. Most humans and animals trust their instincts when faced with a difficult decision, but that does not always lead to the truth. Instincts are not consistent, they are merely coincidences. The senses are “full of uncertainty”, because they may not be showing us the entire truth; the truth that is identical and unanimous for …show more content…
He sees himself as the centre of the universe; the only thing that is important. He puts himself on this unrealistic pedestal in which he believes that he is superior to all, and has these divine traits that no others have. Montaigne believes that “the most wretched and frail of all creatures is man”. Ignorance and pride puts men in danger of achieving the search for truth.leading them farther away from the truth. Men must look to God in order to reach certainty; they must look toward faith. Since man believes he has knowledge, he sees himself better than those, that they believe, does not possess