> 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.
Yeah, absolutely. I was thinking of that quote again because I've been setting up a lecture for today in a course on epistemology and economic methodology and I'm setting up Descartes and Hume (as empiricist extraordinaire) as the twin epistemological devils, one on each shoulder of economics.
Mike