- Going off what Rosie had said above, Descartes believes that your own opinions alone are better then combining thoughts with others. When you start to bring your thoughts together with other people, your opinions get changed. When you work with others you have to compromise and twist your opinions around. At the end of coming to an agreement with everyone, your original idea is probably only a little part of the end result.
- He then talks about how all our opinions are off of others. We have learned off our parents, teachers, elders and so on. If you think about it, all of our thoughts have come from other people. We hear someone's opinion and then we break off of it. We add our own opinions and make it our own. If we did start off with just our own thoughts and weren't influenced by others, I do believe we would be different people.
- The four rules he made up to follow by are essential to his new way of thinking. He didn't want to throw out everything he learned in the past because some of it had truth behind it.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Part 2 - Jen Bea
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"When you work with others you have to compromise and twist your opinions around. At the end of coming to an agreement with everyone, your original idea is probably only a little part of the end result."
I agree with this, as you are in a group your own ideas get mixed in with many others
"The four rules he made up to follow by are essential to his new way of thinking. He didn't want to throw out everything he learned in the past because some of it had truth behind it"
i also think that he took his information and processed it all. I just feel like he didnt believe it because there were too many ideas. You never know until you experience it for himself.
"He then talks about how all our opinions are off of others. We have learned off our parents, teachers, elders and so on."
This is true since it is known today that our environment plays a part in who we are and our attitudes about certain things. When we are younger, our parents are very influential in us learning what is right and wrong. Our parent's actions are constantly watched by us in order for us to begin to distinguish the proper ways to act at certain times and in certain places. As we get older these ideas grow into our own through our experiences with others like teachers and our own peers. So I feel that this is true that much of what we think is a direct influence of others without us really thinking it is at the moment.
-- chris rehonic (group 12)
"The four rules he made up to follow by are essential to his new way of thinking. He didn't want to throw out everything he learned in the past because some of it had truth behind it"
I think that this is very true. It is important for you to take what you've already learned in the past and combine it with what you have learned in the present to come up with ideas that are as close to the truth as possible. I agree that these four rules are very sufficient in life, however, i think it is narrowminded of Descartes to go by four rules to determine the truth in things.
I agree wholly with the comment that Chris from Group 12 left. This is a portion of human nature that cannot be ignored. We are learned creatures, regardless of whether we choose to be. But the enlightenment of being a human is the ability to question these things and see where there is truth in your own life.
I agree with your comments. It is a part of life for us to learn from others. It is weird how we don't really realize that we are always taking peoples ideas all the time and we don't even know it.
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