Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Choices
Descartes thinks that people make good choices, but actually there action our by mistakes. He also said that his purpose here is not to teach the method that everyone out to follow in order to conduct his reason well, but merely to show how he has tried to conduct his own. He alsow says that what we look at is probably not what we see.
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Descartes feels as though his reason is not better than anyone else's, nor does he want other people to only follow his reason because they were told to.
Descartes only wishes to lay out his reason as a map/guide to others who willingly want to follow his reason.
(I used the word "reason" too many times...)
I think that when people give advice and give reason to what they want to tell you,they actually want them to follow that reason. I believe that when someone gives an opinion that they want to recognize their statement. If that was not so, no one would give reasons for anything. No one would learn from others. So actually, I think Decartes is lying when he says that he doesn't want people to listen to his reasons because if that was true; he would never give a reason in the first place.
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