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Cogito Ergo Sum

In Our Time: Philosophy

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What Is the Context of the Intellectual Life of Descartes?

It's not clear to me really why descartes was so keen to join the army, except that it was a way to travel. He used this as joining one army after another, as a means to travel em and his health was frail. It seems quite likely that he left school, he had some sort of breakdown. And highly vivid mental episodes are a very important part of his intellectual career. John and john cunningham, what was the intellectual environment in which we grew up? Outside the school? He had a rigorous education, by the sound of it. He covered everything that the best educated young boys covered in those days, in that part of europe.

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