Religous views

[mahawirasd]

G?n?ral_Argos Wrote:I agree, yea. The best thinker on this root is Ren? Descartes in Discours de la m?thode. Very good but is a shame that he defended existence of god :/

Link in english: http:////records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/descar...artes1.htm

i am aware of his stance. However, i wouldn't go saying that he defended god. However, I would agree that, sadly, he too succumbed to the reasoning and responsibility-evading mentality of the masses. He didn't go so far as "defending" god, what he actually did is similar to what any religious leader would do: to use god as a divine justification to support his claims.
For his all-too-popular claim to be true, he used an assumption rarely recognized/discussed -> which is that things which "think" must "exist". How can he be so bold as to make that assumption?
He simply classified animals and other beings as "automatons", existing like robots. With what data can he support that claim? Can anyone really verify that animals do not actually think? I would think that as we study then more and more we will find that they also conduct thought processes...
personally i would choose the humbler approach; that humans just happen to be a bit "lucky" in the sense that we developed more flexible limbs and appendages as well as muscle tissues...

Descartes had good intentions, however it seems he could not bear the possibility of humans existing totally alone, adrift in an endless sea where they can't see the bottom or find an anchor...

why?
again, i would say (as Nietzsche had put it): human, all too human...
humans fear responsibility, they would gladly forgo parts of their freedom just so that they won't have to think and actually take responsibility for their actions...


-w-