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Philosophy

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1. We owe our descent into mechanism to Descartes.

Wed Apr 24, 2013, 09:24 AM

Apr 2013

And I don't know if human society will ever recover from it.

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René Descartes [View all] Tuesday Afternoon Apr 2013 OP

We owe our descent into mechanism to Descartes. ananda Apr 2013 #1

are you speaking to free will? n/t Tuesday Afternoon Apr 2013 #2

Didn't Voltaire have a badass quote about that? ismnotwasm Apr 2013 #3