Discourse 6

Earlier i talked about how Descarte gave a long and winded discussion about why he first shouldn't publish his works and then for why he should publish some of his works over other works he had produced. Though looking back at this i realized he had another important reason for why he didn't want to publish his works. This reason deals with persecution from other philosphers, scientists and religious authorities. His biggest worry was persecution from the Inquisition, after Galileo was condemded by them for his writtings, this was a real worry back then in the 1640's for philosphers, scientists and any one else talking about new ideas.