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List the important lessons from Descartes' experience and teaching.

      

List the important lessons from Descartes' experience and teaching.

  

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Martin
-He demonstrates that to steer thought and reason to new directions involves rejection of merely following tradition and calls for revolutionalizing thinking in which one must stand out as an individual, autonomous thinker.

-He demonstrates that we must not be captives to traditions; he was rebelling against old dogmatism of the church. There are many parallels to this dogmatism today e.g. tribe, political party, gender, religion e.t.c.

-He further demonstrates that man through his own faculties can acquire knowledge. This underscores man’s rational nature. This however requires clarity of mind and needs a method-not just haphazardly.

-We need to be critical, creative, innovative to have to have a clear understanding of the world-demonstrates the importance of critical and creative thinking.


marto answered the question on May 2, 2019 at 05:13


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