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Looking at Aldous Huxley's, A Brave New World.
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After reading and studying René Descartes, I find his ideas and theories to be rather weak. They are feeble as a result of his "cogito ergo sum" belief, the Christian audience he is writing to, and his rationalist approach to believing facts to be true. The cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am) is an unsubstantial basis for Descartes to build the rest of his beliefs upon. The reader has no choice but to accept this base in order to move onto understanding the rest of Descartes' ideas. If the reader does not agree with cogito ergo sum, then he is left nowhere with Descartes. From there, Descartes goes on to prove God to exist, and exist as one who does not deceive. However, when I look at the audience to whom Descartes writes, it becomes evident that it is a Christian audience. He writes to the Faculty of...
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