A review by theologiaviatorum
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

challenging slow-paced

3.0

Although I preferred Descartes to Bacon, he was no easy read. Yet, their projects have similarities. Both are concerned with erecting a more perfect system of knowledge than that which had previously been known. Modernism is characterized by this desire for scientific/mathematical certainty, a desire for objectivity. While Modernism granted us many good things (I certainly don't want to go under the knife of a pre-modern surgeon) it also bequeathed to us the myth of objectivity. One of the gifts of Post-Modernism is the affirmation of our storied-ness and the exposure of the possibility of obtaining objectivity for what it is, falsehood.