Friday, February 8, 2008

Discourse on Method-Section 5-My Response to Descarte describing the Importance of Nature

Through Section 5 in Descartes Discourse on Method, Descarte first discusses the significance of Astronomy, the Universe, and nature. Descarte mentions even though if there was chaos in the world, nature and the Universe would still work in the same way in my opinion. Descarte describes the earth and how perfected the Earth is through God. He mentions how the separation from the seas to the land, the mountains to the air, and the importance of FIRE, how it can be a guidance of light, the way it can be used to have heat, how it make objects such as glass, and makes different colors. Out of Section 5, I was most amazed of Descarte's interpretation of fire, he explained the concept very well. What phrase stood out to me was "how it was made. how it is nourished, how sometimes it has only heat but no light, and sometimes only light but no heat, how it can introduce various colors, and various other qualities into various bodies; how it melts some bodies, and hardens others; how it can consume nearly all of them or turn them into ashes and smoke."

1 comment:

jasmin said...

I was also amazed by the description of fire. Many times when we think of fire we think of color, and heat. I did realize that fire is not just color and flames. It is true that it can harm us but at the end it turns us all into ashes..This was really a god interpretation..