First is an example of a very popular movie which is basically rationalism in a nutshell. Asking people what is real and exploring how our sense can ultimately deceive us. There is also an explanation of how the movie The Matrix links to rationalism.
The matrix is a movie that is a great example of this method. It shows how we can not be positive of what is real, how what u receives to be real could be your senses deceiving you. That all you know for sure is that you yourself are real, for you think. The Matrix is a perfect example of substance dualism. In this movie, it is shown how the mental (mind) can control the material (body) in another world. In this world, the body can be free to do whatever it wants in that world, but ultimately will never be able to find the mind by which controls it because it does not exist in their visible environment.
This is an informational video of what Descartes’ rational view is all about. It explains how he saw the world, how most we can be perceived to be true is in actuality false. It also explains how even if you are convinced all did not exist; can you think you do not exist? No, you do exist because you can think and be conscious.
Another example of rationalism today is higher level mathematical equations. An example of this would be trigonometric identities. These formulas were created by Descartes on the basis of reasoning and creating a formula to find the true (or real) values of specific angles that the human eye cannot calculate just by looking at. Descartes believed this was a way to bypass the potential errors that the sense can give and to use true reason to calculate the real value of specific variables. Some examples of trig. identities are:
