About the same. Descrartes was a brillant guy, and he is still widely respected for his 'cogito ergo sum'. And he is still seen as the father of dualisms (the people that believe in the non-physicalness of the mind, i.e. the soul). But the whole god-trick he pulls to get out of the doubting-everything-but-the-cogito is widely accepted to be pretty lame. As are his theories about the pineal gland, and about 'spiri animaux' or whatever his vision on the nervous system wronfully was., |
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