University of the District of Columbia Descartes and The Discourse Questions
Question Description
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For the passage below, give:
1) an explanation of what Descartes means in the passage quoted,
2) the general context in which it occurs, and
3) how that which Descartes intends to communicate through the quote fits into the Discourse as a whole.
“Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks himself to be so well endowed with it that even those who are the most difficult to please in everything else are not at all wont to desire more of it than they have. It is not likely that everyone is mistaken in this. Rather, it provides evidence that the power of judging well and of distinguishing the true from the false (which is, properly speaking, what people call “good sense” or “reason”) is naturally equal in all men, and the diversity of our opinions does not arise from the fact that some people are more reasonable than others, but solely from the fact that we lead our thoughts along different paths and do not take the same things into consideration.”

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