Sublime

I think, therefore I am, is not only a mind-over-matter world-view; it separates us from everything that is not us. In the Descartes system that means the whole of the natural world.

inferiority. And we must do that precisely when our instinct tells us to run away as quickly as we can. For Descartes, math is the only place where one can fully experience what it means to understand something.

He understands have no distinct being in Him. Nor do they exist per se, as Plato thought, because forms of natural things cannot exist or be understood apart from matter. Nevertheless, God must understand forms before creating. The solution of this difficulty is as follows: “The concept of the divine intellect, according as He understands Himself,

This implies that one should be able to understand all aspects of complex structures – plants, animals, or the human body – by reducing them to their smallest constituent parts. This philosophical position is known as Cartesian reductionism.

En repartant, je me disais donc en moi-même : « Je suis plus savant que cet homme-là. En effet, il est à craindre que nous ne sachions ni l'un ni l'autre rien qui vaille la peine, mais, tandis que, lui, il s'imagine qu'il sait quelque chose alors qu'il ne sait rien, moi qui effectivement ne sais rien, je ne vais pas m'imaginer que je sais quelque c

Logical truth, in other words, is founded upon ontological truth.

Montaigne, no famoso adágio segundo o qual “filosofar é aprender a morrer”,

Après avoir élaboré une conception moniste de Dieu, Spinoza établit, dans la foulée, une conception moniste de l’être humain, tout aussi révolutionnaire. La tradition chrétienne, dans la lignée de Platon (mais de manière moins tranchée), est en effet fondée sur un dualisme entre l’âme et le corps. D’un point de vue philosophique, Descartes reprend