Ever Feel Stupid? Many of us wish we were smarter than we are. Rene Descartes even felt this way: “For myself, I have never fancied my mind to be in any respect more perfect than those of the generality; on the contrary, I have often wished that I were equal to some others in promptitude …
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David Bentley Hart, Rene Descartes, and my own Cartesian Intuitions
In his new book The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, David Bentley Hart notes that during the medieval era almost nobody thought that “the relation of soul and body was anything like a relation between two wholly independent kinds of substance: the ghost and its machine (which for what it is worth, was not really Descartes …