René Descartes

" The common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, everyone thinks it's so well equipped that even the most difficult to please in every other aspect not usually want more of what they own"

René Descartes

From the deepest beggining of the times people has been looking for the true and in the very beggining as far as they were ingnorants, they decided to trust in the idea of gods, magicians, priest. It means the true was given by the authority of other people but not for the reason.

Descartes began a new time, the use of intelligence and the reason. The first step was forgetting everything known as true, and the submition of every idea to the light of reason.

If by any chance the idea could not support the analysis, this idea had to be errased from the mind.

It meant to start the process of knownledge from the most small and simple unity in order to built up the most complex ideas. This is the cartesian method

In the way of this process people had to eliminate any idea born from the religion.

Idols of the mind

Idol of the cave:

In 1936 when the olympic games of Berlin, the American runner Jesse Owens, had been despised by his teammates for being black. When he traveled with his team inside of U.S.A, he had to stay in a hotel for black people and his teammates in a hotel for white people. Sometimes he had to dress like a poor worker and he entered to a hotel of white people in secret. Jesse Owens was discriminated by his teammate and also was discriminated by foreign. When the Olympic games began in Germany under the Nazism, in one day Jesse Owens win four gold medals and humilate white athletes. Adolf Hitler was furious, he left the area without recognizing the superiority of the runner.

It is an idol of the cave because it is the product of what people learnt in that time. It was supposed that black people was inferior and white people was superior. And it demostrate how people is fascinated with themselfs.