Introducing Blaise Pascal: The First Anti-Modern
René Descartes was kind of a dick.
His famous saying, “I think, therefore I am,” is nothing less than a wholesale rejection of all authority — even objective truth — in favor of a defecated rationality and fierce subjectivism that belittles anything outside one’s own mind.
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