I love reading Descartes. His theories work wonders for dispelling my fear of death.

>>24553722 (OP)
I like 21 Rules and Discourse on Method for their approach to logic but Meditations isn't very convincing to me. He is a mixed bag. I believe in Monism and that the mind and matter are permanently linked so of course I would be averse to him.

>>24553728
monism is the refuge of pseudo-Tikkun Olam aesthetes.

*blocks your path*

>We claim that, while voluntarism will have to be ignored in an overall understanding of Descartes’ thought, it has genuine philosophical significance because a “voluntarist demon” represents the most formidable skeptical threat possible.

https://philpapers.org/rec/HARIDT-5

>>24554596
Wut