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Philosophy of René Descartes
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Pascal vs Descartes: Where did the Enlightenment go wrong?
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Descartes was not a secularist or a pure rationalist, but rather a mystic who believed reason was grounded in divine illumination.
“The reason comes from within. It comes from a kind of divine illumination. That's what for dayart undergirds reason. And so in that sense he's similar to Pascal. He thinks that faith is just as important.”
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