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We are doing Makers of the Modern Mind by Thomas Neal,

and this is the fifth installment.

We're going to start Descartes today,

and the subtitle is Pure Reasons Failure.

Okay, Descartes, Pure Reasons Failure.

All right, Luther's Rev revolt came from his inability to solve the personal problem of achieving spiritual security. Okay. I mean, and I would always say they're also being supported by the powers that be who would benefit from that, like all the kings want to take the church's land.

Calvin found himself immersed in a revolution which he had to control in order to save his life on this earth and his soul in the next.

But René Descartes du Peron was not forced by circumstances into his life of revolutionary philosophizing.

He deliberately chose his career after calmly surveying the world in which he lived,

assessing its shortcomings, and deciding that it was up to him to set men's minds a right.

Descartes, it is true, had a passionate craving for intellectual security,

and to this extent his personal desires prompted his revolutionary thinking almost as

imperatively as Luther's had. Descartes, however, was eminently calm, perfectly balanced. He proposed to himself nothing less than a one-man

revolution, whereby he would overthrow the world of ideas and create a better one. It would be his

task to start from nothing, for nothing was certain in the mind of man, and from this basis he would create a new world

by means of his unaided reason. This he would do alone, unaided by the rest of mankind, and he would

complete the task before he died. All right, that's really setting it up for 30 pages. He accomplished a lot to be

distilled down to this. Okay, Descartes would never want to be judged as mostly right and a little

wrong. Either he was completely right, he would tell us, or he was wrong. Either he had rebuilt the

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