René Descartes

“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.”(Page 158)

The quote above is from the French philosopher René Descartes. He is trying to make the point that as men we are all equal in terms of our level of judgment. It is rather our opinions which change the decisions that we make. Descartes starts off his paper with this line to display that he does not believe himself to be better than anyone else in terms of intellectual reasoning. However due to the life that he lived, he claims to have been given the opportunity to “augment his knowledge”. Descartes believes it is because of this that he has the ability to comment on the past present and future. I find it interesting that Descartes would start off his paper in a way that proves why his opinions are ones that should be looked at.