Who was René Descartes?

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

This writing is meant for thinking about the personality of Renè Descartes who was the great philosopher and thinker. I always thought that maybe this name was meant for hiding identity of this remarkable thinker, and because I have lived in Finland long time, I have sometimes thought that maybe this person's real home language was Finnish. Maybe this helped him hiding his identity from the royal police.  Philosophers are professional thinkers, who always think the things like "why my professor has always the glass of water with him when this person would start to keep lectures?


Is that because my professor wants to drink that water at the midpoint of the lecture? Or is it meant the mark, that professor is selling the answers to the examinations? Or is the reason for keeping that glass on the table meant for some kind of water clock, what mission is to show, how time is running during the lecture, given that the professor drinks that water all the time? Or is it for the secret sign that everything is all right? Maybe it is signal that professor is a member of secret Illuminati society? And then we must ask, what happens if that glass is missing?  Do the bodyguards of that man run into the auditorium?


The thing what I just wrote, was meant, for example, that means the philosophical way of thinking. It is actually modeling the question about something like water glasses, and then philosopher tries to find the deeper aspect of the question "why professor keeps the glass of water on the table"? That makes their writings easier to marketing, and of course, the things like secret societies are the very good trick, when their books are put on the sale. Those things make those writings more fascinating than some "I think, I am" style phrases. And of course the jokes made those writings very easy to read, and the best joke was, that the King of Sweden was sacrificed his own troops in battles, and the reason was that the salaries did not need to pay to those dead men.


That was, of course, the conspiracy theory, and maybe somebody told another joke, that the king has been leaked the information of the military tactics of Sweden to the enemy, that they could kill enough his soldiers. Then some thinker noticed that war are the good way to get rid of the political enemies of the King of Sweden. Death on the battlefield was very much easier to explain, than executions. And if the soldier dies on the battlefield, nobody ever reads anything, what that man has written, because real soldiers ever wrote anything was the policy in that time.


If the man died in the front line, there would not leave any dangerous papers where was embarrassing information behind that man. And that speaker, of course, argued this speak that the Swedish empire was in the war in the era of every king or ruler of Sweden. And that was the reason for the suspect that the wars were used to clean the empire from the people, who had utopias that normal people would sometimes take control in their nations. Political enemies were more easy to kill with troops of the enemy. In university is the point or vision that students learn to think themselves. Also, many examinations in University is made for the people, who think the things themselves. Independent thinking is a road to freedom of thinking, and in this case, we must say that in the free-thinking process, would not need to prove anything.


Of course, the philosopher would look for some information to support the opinions, what he or she introduces in the writings. But the real key is that writer must rhetorically argue, why the text has the purpose, and why other persons should read it. And if somebody claimed that the king of Sweden goes to war for saving money was the very interesting example of the way to handle the economic problems of the state. In that time the rhetoric was very interesting and maybe other persons wanted to read those texts because that was the very good example of the ability to think self,  and this kind of men are dangerous for people, who want to keep absolute power in their hands.


That's why this man wrote by using French, what was the main language of European civilized people, who were mainly males in that time when women had only one place to be. Their place was to stay at home and serve the husbands. But when we are thinking about the identity of Descartes, we must realize that maybe this man didn't even speak French. The name what he used was probably created by hiding this person's real identity. And maybe this name where is apostrophe over the second "E" letter was meant to confess other persons, that the writer of those texts is coming from France. Of course, the real identity of that man kept in secret. There is a couple of things about the philosophers and science of language, what normal people should know. Have you ever thought that maybe the great philosopher didn't even speak French? In the real-life Descartes might only write French, and that could make this man's real identity stood hidden from other people.


By the way, who told that Descartes was a man? Here we must think, was Descartes even a single person? Or was Descartes the group of writers? There might also be a woman behind that name, and of course, the writings of that man were caused little anger in the minds of Caroline officers, who took the critiques what was targeted to the King very seriously. Maybe sometimes the great philosopher didn't even know, what was his cover name. And there might happen that some students have sit in the same table with Descartes, and made the notes about what this man was spoken.


Then they would put that text to the bulletin board, and then the applause were very strong, when some Caroline officer lost the temper. And that was the mark that Descartes was really wrote something, what made him existed person to everybody in the Swedish Empire. There is many things, what is told about famous philosophers, and maybe I must sometimes spend an evening with René by reading about this man and his ideas, that I would understand about those men and women, who are written words what lives forever. And also I want to be and I try to think myself, like René Descartes sometimes wrote in the library of University or in some beer house in Sweden in 18th. century.

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