PHIL1070 Lecture 18: Descartes_
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Family sent him to la fleche - a jesuit school. When galileo was arrested by the catholics in 1630 descartes was shook. First published work - had other non published one, but he waited until after death because galileo. Method for learning - in order to acquire knowledge. 1 method rather than many to know something. Educate people who hadn"t been told they could learn. Readers are priests and well to do people. Everyone can learn and everyone can reason equally well. Everyone is smart enough to control their own lives. There is no new philosophy - studying old texts. If you start with incorrect philosophy everything you determine from that will be wrong. Whenever we doubt something we should treat it as false. If you"re wrong about what you"re doubting being true then all the work you did is for nothing. Why is it beneficial to rely on one method.
