... realize that they themselves where doing the same thing all along. For one to really understand philosophy you must grasp the true meaning of common sense. According to Aristotle, everyone desires to learn the meaning. "A sign of this is the pleasure we take in our senses..." (page 12, line 8). You are walking down the street you smell a bad odor you wonder, right away your mind starts to create an image of what it is that is causing this scent. Even though you might not care, your intellect will react to it, trying to acquire knowledge of that scent. I don't blame the author for thinking that Descartes is absurd for his ideas. Descartes limits the knowledge of man; he argues that man does not know anything in this world and never will. In my opinion, Descartes closed his eyes and tried to see the world for ...

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