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Descartes' Sceptical Method
In Descartes’ Meditations, he brings into doubt all that he has naively perceived to be real. He claims that “it is a mark of prudence to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once”(14). The conspiracy of one’s senses and emotions can cause the most lucid idea to become indiscernible through the many deceptions that result from their imperfect natures. Love can blind as the eyes can betray, and these things are easily doubted as reflecting what is real. Yet, these many sen
The Drug War
She wanders down the littered streets of Vancouver, B.C., pushing a battered shopping cart with emaciated hands and a loping gait. Her eyes are vacuous, unblinking, as she asks passers-by if they could spare a little change because, she claims, she has not eaten for several days. She is yet another panhandler who will spend whatever earnings they eke out on drugs. People pass her without acknowledgment, with the superior air of those who have not fallen victim to the weakness of drug addiction.
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