On 10/11/02 11:13:00 PM, Liz Hammans
wrote:
perhaps he didn't
>believe in a god of any form,
>but knew he had to justify
>that there *could* be one for
>the sake of his own life.

Although Descartes feared the power of
the Church as a poltiical body, it also
seems that he was a sincere believer. He
vigorously debated, via letters, a
materialistic philosopher named Thomas
Hobbes, and reading that
correspondance, it's hard to believe it
was all for show.

Prof. Borrowdale