One's Own Path

In Rene Decartes book, A Discourse on the Method, he seeks to show people that they need to use their own intelligence to find what is the truth. However, he does not wish for those people to just blindly jump to conclusions and become single minded and think that their own way is the only right way. This is why he frowns upon the church and philosophers. They all believe that their way of thinking is correct and become single minded. Rene Decartes seeks to promote the idea of thinking with an open mind to all possible answers, not just one's own, and respecting the answers of others “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,” (6). He wants people to use their intelligence to spread the knowlege around so as to make all of the people better. This is done to attempt to break the two different types of minds that Decartes believes exists, the minds of people who have too much confidence in their own intelligence and the minds of people who only follow the "intelligent people." He wants everybody to realize the fact that people are all intelligent on some level“Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world” (Descartes 5). This fact however can be debated but according to Decartes beliefs, people should be open minded and not think like that.