Saturday, February 16, 2008

Discourse part 2

Rene Descartes says that buildings made by one person is better than buildings made by others because it has more art and it is more beautiful. This also ties into the fact that he believes that working alone is better than working in a group. He believes that it is difficult to make or build things that are attractive when you are working with more than one person.
He also states that people who are constructing a new town become organized and orderly when they work together. When they do not cooperate and do not work together the town becomes disorganized. I do not understand how he can believe this when he does not believe that working in a group is a good thing.

2 comments:

Danielle said...

Descartes is totally contradicting himself here. He believes that working alone is better than working in a group but yet he states the whole analogy about building a new town. I agree with you. I dont understand what Descartes is trying to say.

Eugenia said...

I don't understand what he is trying to say either. He doesn't like group work yet he talks about people working together to build a new town