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The Brass Monkey Condensation

Bloody cold day it's been. Positively brass monkey weather.

Cousin went to Sittingbourne and I went to the library to do some buddying but only two users turned up, me and somebody else before me.. Then I had to pop over to Faversham to sell some more books, and then to Sittingbourne to visit Iceland.

This afternoon I finished  another book from the fifty book challenge , one on the scepticism of  Descartes. It is one I have been dipping into occasionally and reached the final pages today.

Still reading the Montaigne book , and should be nearing the end of that by the weekend. I always seem to have at least three books on the go at any one time, as “Walden” is another I am dipping into occasionally . Possibly will start the Primo Levi book or one of those Margaret Atwood novels.

Book 16 - Bernard Williams "Descartes :The Project of Pure Enquiry"

So as I hinted at in the last blog entry this is the book I completed today -

Bernard Williams – Descartes : The Project of Pure Enquiry”

Descartes has often been called the 'father of modern philosophy'. His attempts to find foundations for knowledge, and to reconcile the existence of the soul with the emerging science of his time, are among the most influential and widely studied in the history of philosophy.

This is a classic and challenging introduction to Descartes by one of the most distinguished modern philosophers. Bernard Williams not only analyses Descartes' project of founding knowledge on certainty, but uncovers the philosophical motives for his search. With acute insight, he demonstrates how Descartes' Meditations are not merely a description but the very enactment of philosophical thought and discovery. Williams covers all of the key areas of Descartes' thought, including God, the will, the possibility of knowledge, and the mind and its place in nature. He also makes profound contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics and philosophy generally. A tough but fascinating read.