Quote Originally Posted by Lina
I think Descartes was an idiot...does that mean it is true? most people...philosophers especialy will dissagree with me that he was an idiot and that cogito ergo sum is brilliant...well...if i think he is an idiot therefore he is...but they don't think he was so therefore he isn't...well...which is it/ i think i just gave myself a headach.

Lina, as a child or young adult, did you ever wonder if you and the world we live in was an illusion... not real, perhaps even the dream of a higher being and we're all just characters in the dream? How do you prove it one way or the other. Descarte boiled it down into one simple statement. I don't know if he was brilliant or an idiot, but at the least, he had one moment of brilliant clarity. Good enough for me.