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3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses government, philosophy and the good life as they relate to Plato, Descartes and Camus. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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class of philosophers by way of opposition to Platos theoretical approach. Descartes, for example, contended that all thought takes a positive, logical form, asserting how the structure of a
proposition or an argument was the basis of all logical form - far and away the antithesis of philosophical conjecture. Through the logical progression of other mind analysis, one
can readily understand how Descartes felt that he could learn everything there was to know about other minds just as long as this knowledge was based in scientific proof or
logic. He applied this theory to every topic as intensely as though it were a problem in mathematics, which he truly believed it to be. It is no
wonder, then, that Descartes had no kind regard for those things that were based solely in philosophical superstition or folly, inasmuch as his contention was that the only things worthy
of thought were those that pertained to provable knowledge and logic. Why, he wondered in relation to Platos philosophical meanderings, would people want to spend their valuable lives thinking
thoughts that were of nonexistent concepts when there were worlds of knowledge to be discussed and pondered? "I easily understand that, if
some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consider it when it chooses, it may thus imagine corporeal
objects; so that this mode of thinking differs from pure intellection only in this respect, that the mind in conceiving turns in some way upon itself, and considers some one
of the ideas it possesses within itself; but in imagining it turns toward the body, and contemplates in it some object conformed to the idea which it either of itself
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