Why?
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 22:51:40
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 5 pages (1284 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 5 pages (1284 words)
Why?
<Tab/>Why should one doubt everything? The reason I ask "Why?" is because doubting everything you know and sense is not accomplishing anything; one should only doubt what could be proven incorrect. Descartes is defiantly a skeptic, not the usual doubter but the "King" so to speak of doubters. Descartes, one of the most intellectual of all mathematicians, secludes himself in a room to doubt everything, even his existence. Descartes …
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…not as deceived, but as a mind that believes truth. The basic philosophy of Neurath and myself is to simply take out the bad and leave the good. Take what you know to be true and build upon it; don't "raze it all to the ground" and start over.
Rene' Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy," in Classics of Western Philosophy, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002), 460
Rene' Descartes, 464
Simon Blackburn, Think (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 44.
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