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According to Descartes, a philosopher is someone who uses philosophy to change his own life, to e... more According to Descartes, a philosopher is someone who uses philosophy to change his own life, to effect a form of life. This kind of philosophy as a form of life is Descartes's own specific flavor of rationalism. In a narrower sense, a philosopher is someone who only cares about the things which are in his own power. For Descartes, only one's own thoughts satisfy this criterion. Hence comes the necessity to divide one's own thoughts from the rest, i.e. from the corporeal, from the body. This in turn is the main goal of Descartes's meditation of doubt, which is ended with the cogito. To have established this in the first place, Descartes claims, is his original effort in the history of philosophy. The primary goals of meditation are, according to Descartes, self-transformation and a reconfiguration of habit. Thus, Descartes is much less a philosopher of the subject than a philosopher of the self. or in a Foucaultian vein a philosopher of the care of the self. Descartes...
According to Descartes, a philosopher is someone who uses philosophy to change his own life, to e... more According to Descartes, a philosopher is someone who uses philosophy to change his own life, to effect a form of life. This kind of philosophy as a form of life is Descartes's own specific flavor of rationalism. In a narrower sense, a philosopher is someone who only cares about the things which are in his own power. For Descartes, only one's own thoughts satisfy this criterion. Hence comes the necessity to divide one's own thoughts from the rest, i.e. from the corporeal, from the body. This in turn is the main goal of Descartes's meditation of doubt, which is ended with the cogito. To have established this in the first place, Descartes claims, is his original effort in the history of philosophy. The primary goals of meditation are, according to Descartes, self-transformation and a reconfiguration of habit. Thus, Descartes is much less a philosopher of the subject than a philosopher of the self. or in a Foucaultian vein a philosopher of the care of the self. Descartes...