I like Decartes. I don't like what he says. I think his arguments are pretty awful. But I respect the man.
Why?
Because he was one of the first! He's considered the father modern philosophy because he started to use rationalism. Rationalism at the time of the Galileo.
We all know what happened to Galileo. He went again the teaching of the church and he suffered the consequences. Going against the church is something Descartes was all to aware of which is probably why he puts some of his questionable things into his writing. To pay a little lip service and keep the big man upstairs happy.
The thing that can make philosophy more interesting is context! Why did these dead white bros write what they wrote?
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