Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Discours Part 5 Post 2

In response to Gabrielle, the ability to speak comes from our soul, which Descartes believes is a gift of God. He explains how speech is harder to explain then the blood flow ideas, so he believes it must be a gift from God, and that that gift is strictly for humans. Explaining furthermore, that animals do not have the abitlity to speak, therefore, are not intellegent.