Discourse Part 5

Discourse 5 begins by explaining how and why Descartes' treatise, "The World" was not published. Reasons being that Galileo was being tried at the time by the church for his support of heliocentricity. Therefore Descartes did not want to get in trouble so he talks about the ideas of his book, but he changes the setting to a world, somewhere in space. He then goes on to talk about God and how he creates everything on that world, and establishes his laws. From that point on he has no control over what happens, and the laws he established will determine how the chaos he created sorts itself out and becomes what it is today. He then goes on to explain, how we are different from animals because we have the ability to speak to each other and have other levels of higher thinking. As Mark said he talks about blood a lot, and finishes with explaining how when we die we go to the same place as all other animals, however it is our soul that makes us different, which states that our body and soul are completely seperate.