I found it difficult to enjoy Descartes simply because I cannot enjoy indulging in probability regarding being "certain", and most things that he states and that he defends the objections with are in a state of probability. "It is quiet possible that this is a certain thing!".... come on.
The way that he connected the ability to know with the existence of god was rather grand and quiet ingenious, especially in a time when it seemed like such a suggestion was necessary for any further progress to be made under the power of church and state.
I did enjoy the experiment with wax and its results. I find that we interact with the essence of things, like the wax before and after is still the wax because of the idea of the wax we have in mind. I also feel that we interact equally with those ideas in transitional states. As they transition from their original physical state, the transition also happens to the idea, which changes the idea but still follows from the original idea. So in a way, I find essences to be as transitional as the form they coincide with in the "physical realm."
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