Friday, February 15, 2008
"True or false?"...
Truth came from the senses but some senses were false. On quote from Descartes that I really liked was on page 60, “ It is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceive us even once.” What would make Descartes blame everything on his senses? It is because you hear what you hear and see what you see? Or is it merely because he was betrayed by them at one point?
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Descartes blames fall on everything and everyone besides himself. If you trust someone enough to tell or let be apart of your darkness secrets and later that trust is broken then you need to make better judgement would you say so?
I do believe that Descartes must have interpreted his senses in a wrong, or misleading way at one time or another. Sometimes your senses are really all a person has to go by, for exmaple like fear, and "stick with your gut instinct". Some merely go just by this, including myself. However, if at one point I was mislead, it would be a fact that I could no longer just go by what my senses tell me to believe. Descartes was persuaded to feel or think of a particular thing in someway, acted upon by his senses, and in the end was wrong for following his senses so strongly.
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