Friendship is like peeing on yourself, everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feelin that it brings

Rene Decartes shows that self-intellect is the most important thing a person should have. He doesn't like it when people just go off of what philosophers and what the church tells people to do. He feels that people start to only believe what they say and then that gives people narrowed views on a topic when they should be able to think in a large general way. Decartes does not feel that everyone should know all the information about all topics and that sometimes their is guidance needed, but never should someone just hear one persons view on an argument and then make that their own stance. They should use the guidance as a guide and that is all and then form their own self opinions. This is shown when Decartes says "So my aim here is not to teach the method that everyone must follow for the right conduct of his reason, but only to show in what way I have tried to conduct mine." Decartes holds self-intellect very high on what every human should have and he will disagree with anything that tries to take individuality out of people's opinions.
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