Re: “Citing Descartes here indicates a lack of understanding of his subject.”
How so? Descartes believed in God, believed He was rational and benevolent, maybe more on the deistic side but he was certainly not an atheist. I’m not sure what your criticism of the author refers to.
“How so? Descartes believed in God, believed He was rational and benevolent, maybe more on the deistic side but he was certainly not an atheist. I’m not sure what your criticism of the author refers to.”
Descartes was considered an atheist by many in the church. The church suppressed his writings. They put his books on the banned list.
The author extolled the universities of that time. Descartes revolted against the ‘scientific’ teachings of the universities which at that time were teaching that the sun went around the earth among other things.