The debate being fought at the start of the modern period.
Tracing the Thread of the Debate (Part Two)
Descartes tinkered with the treasure chest which legend said
Came from Atlantis as reported by Plato. Leibnitz probed into
The inner chambers and saw monads quietly swirling around
In miniature vortices. A little while after Spinoza thought of geometric
Zings and thought this is for easy undertaking.
Locke could not restrain himself and said that Descartes was still in his
Usual dreaming state. Leibnitz’s intellectual fantasizing landed him in the
Best of all possible worlds while Spinoza agonized and found
Consolation by looking at reality sub specie aeternitatis. Venerable George Berkeley
Cringed in the possibility of the imminent eviction of God from the discussion, so he thought of
A way to convince his friends and enemies alike that everything is actually just in the mind of God
And would have all melted into nothingness were it left to its own nothingness.
The affable Hume laughed off the claim that reason could with all its power prove that what the Ancients and the schoolmen have been so sure about is nothing but wistful thinking and useless passions.
Strange indeed are the ways of men but stranger still
The man of means for as we see right down to where we are,
The world has changed not by anybody’s plan but purely by human h
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ands.
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