Descartes, famous above all for saying “I think therefore I am”; the experiences

themselves are the only thing that you need to justify the existence of the external
world.
For Plato, mathematics is the key of everything, and because of that, Descartes
reminds me of Plato. Unlike the other philosophers who appeal their arguments to
God, Descartes believes (in his first proposition) that human mind is the power of
knowledge, that all the knowledge we may need should come from ourselves. The
foundation of knowledge is the experience itself.
As Plato says, our senses can guide us to wrong or bad choices. Descartes
believed that much of what was wrong in the world was caused by misusing our
mind by confusion, bad definition and unconscious illogicality. We should have more
commitment to working through emotional confusion, prejudicial and helpful
tradition, in order to arrive at an independent rationally founded vision of existence.
Although, Descartes says that human senses are deeply unreliable, “Is it the
reality or is it a dream?”. Thus, he stops being related with Plato, because for Plato
everything is about mind and truth, there is nothing more above us and when
Descartes talks about not being sure him living a dream or the reality (our mind in
another dimension), it stops to be about mathematics (Plato).
Then, according to Descartes way of thinking, I would like to ask “Imagine if
what we are living is just a dream and when we finally die we wake up to the true
reality.