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According to Seigel, "Descartes's view of reason as most pure and solid when it was free of corruption by the world's confusions implied nothing less than the attempt to break free of all social and cultural experience."

Not for the first time, I wish there were an anthropological history of modern philosophy as motivated by "dirt-avoidance."

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Friday, August 11, 2006 at 05:26 PM

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