On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Mike Beggs wrote:
> I've always liked how Descartes put it at the start of the Discourse on
> Method:
That's beautiful -- except of course that his idea that we could resolve human questions using the method of pure logic was not just totally wrong, it's today the main fuel of the illusion that smartest --> rightness. Descartes, for all the pleasure of his writing, bids fair to be called the founder of the Enlightenment illusion that humans can transcend worldviews.
Michael