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" "Remembering, however, as I have already said, that the natural light is to be
trusted only in so far as nothing to the contrary is revealed by God Himself. …
Moreover, it must be fixed in one's memory as the highest rule, that what has
been revealed to us by God is to be believed as the most certain of all things;
and even though the light of reason should seem most clearly to suggest
something else, we must nevertheless give creedence to the divine authority
only, rather than our own judgment. (Principia philosophiae, pars prima 28 and
76.)
René Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650) was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer. He is known for his influential arguments for substance dualism, where mind and body are considered to have distinct essences, one being characterized by thought, the other by spatial extension. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics." He is also known as Cartesius.
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Mientras que el amor de un buen padre siente por sus hijos es tan puro que no desea obtener nada de ellos y no quiere poseerlos de otro modo que como lo hace, ni unirse a ellas más estrechamente de lo que lo está ya; si no que, considerándolos como otros él mismo, procura el bien de ellos como el suyo propio, o incluso con más celo, porque, pareciéndole que el y ellos constituyen un todo del cual no es él la mejor partes, prefiere a menudo los intereses de ellos antes que los suyos y no teme perderse por salvarlos.