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Ideas for 'Lectures on Aesthetics', 'Mind and Its Place in Nature' and 'Meditations'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

1569	Descartes impoverished the classical idea of logos, and it no longer covered human experience [Roochnik on Descartes]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason

2248	Reason says don't assent to uncertain principles, just as much as totally false ones [Descartes]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason

2857	Since Plato all philosophers have followed the herd, except Descartes, stuck in superficial reason [Nietzsche on Descartes]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

3641	It is circular to make truth depend on believing God's existence is true [Arnauld on Descartes]

4524	Descartes is right that in the Christian view only God can guarantee the reliability of senses [Nietzsche on Descartes]

2290	Once it is clear that there is a God who is no deceiver, I conclude that clear and distinct perceptions must be true [Descartes]