Books of Interest: Descartes an Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger

Posted on September 20, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Descartes_biography

Just rereading pages 340 to 343 on the cogito.

‘When someone says I am thinking therefore I am, or exist, he does not deduce existence from thought by means of a syllogism, but  recognizes it as something self-evident by a simple intuitus of the mind.”

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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