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If Noam Chomsky spent 4 years undercover with guerillas he'd be Descartes
| https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK | 08/10/26 |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 11:43 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK telling you how you should think (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891807&forum_id=2),#50059981) |
Date: August 10th, 2026 11:45 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Either angered by squabbling within the so-called ‘United Provinces’ of the Netherlands, or at the direction of his spymaster, he soon switched allegiances to the Catholic Duke Maximillian of Bavaria. Military manoeuvres took him east, and while stationed somewhere near Neuburg, on the Danube, in November 1619, he had his ‘night of visions’. This was when he imagined the ground-breaking ideas at the heart of his philosophy, including his famous realisation ‘I think therefore I am’.
Descartes went on to witness the crucial Battle of the White Mountain of November 1620, which marked the end of the Bohemian Revolt. He abandoned soldiering soon after. By 1622 he had returned to Paris, and he spent most of the remaining 28 years of his life in the Netherlands.
https://www.military-history.org/feature/thinkers-at-war-descartes.htm |