Rene Descartes

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Pragmatic Point: The Failure of the Cartesian Method of Doubt

By C.L. Bolt ⋅ December 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

In his Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes utilizes a method of doubt in order to determine whether or not there is any such thing as certainty. The American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce later critiques Descartes not necessarily on the basis of what many other philosophers find fault with in Descartes, but rather on the [...]

The Problem of Religion (Part 1): Introduction, Descartes, and Nietzsche

By C.L. Bolt ⋅ September 27, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Introduction From within the Non-Christian worldview it may be rather easily seen that the term “religion” is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to define. This is no doubt due to the subjective nature of the term once it is divorced from the Christian worldview. A number of thinkers will be discussed in this series in [...]

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