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      <name><![CDATA[René Descartes]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the Discourse Descartes is charming, down-to-earth, and his investigation of skepticism is exciting, fun and profound at the same time.  That’s a rare combination in philosophy, at least in my experience - only Plato and Chuang Tzu come to mind as similar in this respect (maybe Nietzsche, but h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18098942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written after I read this as a junior in college:<br/><br/>René Descartes spent much of his life in travel, studying the great works of philosophers and scientists.  After the majority of his formal learning was completed, Descartes began writing prolifically.  The Discourse on Method, written in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12261752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Date read is an educated guess.  Descartes helps move modern man forward in these works, but it's also his fault that we have some of our thornier societal problems.  Reducing things to pure logic leads to uncomfortable justifications and the evil utilitarianism.  It's also decidedly anti-Christian,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9296178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great edition of one of the most significant philosophical works in modern times.  This discussion of the method for which Frances Bacon was missing is one of the most enlightening reads an individual can embark upon.  I would recommend this as required reading  for any middles school child throug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22667825">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enrolled in Loyola University Chicago's graduate program in philosophy after two years of dead-end jobs upon completion of seminary.  The motivation was primarily intellectual.  Previous study had served to raise questions more than answer them and some knowledge of the history and thought of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43781666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a quest for certainty, Descarte questions (doubts) everything and wipes the slate clean by pretending that &quot;everything was false.&quot;  But then he rebuilds reality through his recognition that if he thought all was false, then thought itself must be real.  Hence his well-known observation ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74222844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['I think therefore I am' Probably the most quoted philosophical reference around today. But people generally don't know what it means!<br/>Descartes is reputed as the Father of Modern Philosophy, the bringer of new ways of thinking, of revising our beliefs. Though a blatant sexist, speciesist and b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68013701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Thus the diversity of our views does not result from the fact that some people are more reasonable than others, but simply from the fact that we guide our thoughts along different paths and do not think about the same things.  For it is not enough to have a good mind; it is more important to u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74724177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not exactly pleasure reading, but it is interesting that in an attempt to prove the existence of a god, he only managed to prove that he exists.  Oh yeah, and thanks for the mind-body problem D, thanks a lot.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I was necessarily smart enough or interested enough at the time I read this to actually think about what I was reading, so take my rating with a grain/shaker's worth of salt.]]></body>
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    <review id="44991882">
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    <name><![CDATA[Janet]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am. Can I just say something here?  This Descartes guy was crazy!  I'm sure people with more expansive minds than mine really get into this stuff but honestly, I have no use for it.  Dude wrote three pages on what happens when wax melts and how he knows or doesn't know if it's s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44991882">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2930543">
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    <body><![CDATA[I cannot comment on this book. I am, upon honest reflection, inadequate to say anything.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;i think, therefore i am.&quot;  interesting to read, impossible to accept (or rather, I refuse), especially for those of us who have experienced our minds as our own worst enemies. because it dwells on the past and tries to anticipate the future, thinking robs us of BEING in the present; i can...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9221271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8173731">
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    <body><![CDATA[The Cartesian subject gets a bad wrap these days, but I'm down with &quot;cogito, ergo sum&quot; with a couple of (admittedly pretty major) modifications from psychoanalysis and poststructuralism.<br/><br/>First, when I'm assuring myself of my own ego-existence by thinking, &quot;I am thinking, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8173731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56524295">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm probably a bad person to rate this book, since I've had to read both the discourse and the meditations MULTIPLE TIMES. It gets old, especially when you're dealing with antiquated (and just plain wrong) philosophy. All-in-all though, there's no denying what Descartes did for modern philosophy. So...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56524295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44300130">
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    <body><![CDATA[Two of the seminal works in philosophy, these are the foundation of modern philosophy. Descartes clears the way with his self doubt, summarized in the famous dictum, &quot;cogito ergo sum&quot;. Much thought proffered here and the base for many others, including Spinoza, Hobbes and Leibniz, to criti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44300130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50244020">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book that everyone has heard about but no one has read. And it's a pity, too, because Descarte's Discourse on Method has been so misinterpreted it's essence is constantly lost, which is a tragedy when it happens to one of the works that founded modern Western thought.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book is the turning point in the development of modern thinking.  It was written after Galileo had his problems and I think Descartes was trying to reassure the powers that be that reason and revelation need not contradict each other.  Basically, I think it is Plato, reworked, so that G...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57117621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My take on this monolith: pretty cool. It made me feel like I could come up with the idea of &quot;cogito&quot; myself, which was a great and much needed boost to my ego. I started smoking again while I was reading this, thought I'm not sure if that means it's better or worse!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since Descartes is one of the most famous modern philosophers, it was interesting to see how blatantly illogical most of his argument is.  When I say most, I'm talking about everything that comes after, &quot;I think, therefore I am.&quot;  Quite accessible though, as far as philosophy goes.]]></body>
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