Elmo Recio
Date:
99-07-20
Entry:
OK, so I enter Roosevelt's pub on Tuesday for my weekly $2.50 Guiness Night ;) and I decided to write this...
On Decartes and his meditations: A very important point was brought up today. Decartes questioned everything. The whole world with his demon & dream theory. He even doubted the logic of 2+2=4. Accusing the demon. Yet rationality, itself, was what was going to deliver him from this state of doubt.
Wasn't it Decartes himself a member of everything? He forgot that he cannot trust his very self because he is also a part of everything.
Then it hit me... like an epiphany, or maybe I came about it serendipitously. Covered in class was the fact that I just stated. But we can take it a bit further. If he is part of everything... how can he be sure that his doubt of everything is actually doubt?
Attacking everything (the very ground that he stands on-as dr. bach anologised) would break even his meditations! How can he be sure of his doubt, if therein lies doubt (of his doubt).
His entire theory, lays down his very theory. (Self destructive) It's like a downward spiral. As he doubts more and more, he is actually falling deeper and deeper into this hole. It becomes harder and harder for him to exit.