June 4, 2023
The Origins of Our Binary World
By Jack Wisdom
Rene Descartes, the great 17th century mathematician and philosopher, expressed a problem that has beset intellectuals for the past 500 years – namely the tendency to doubt everything. Descartes began his introspections by doubting everything and working his way back towards certainty, concluding “I think, therefore I am.” Further, this certainty of his is-ness was backed up by the certainty of God’s pre-existent is-ness. Thus, he backed into his “certainty” by a negative process of excluding what can be doubted. The certainties of the Middle Ages were caving before the radical civilizational changes which called into question the certainty of previously existing institutions and convictions.
During the late Middle Ages and the early modern period of European history, we see the rise of cities and universities which began to co-exist alongside the manorial feudal estates of the purely landed economy. We see the rise of trade and the money economy in Europe. The discovery of new lands which we now call North and South America blew apart the geographical understanding of planet Earth. These discoveries and conquests changed the educated understanding of the land mass configuration of planet Earth. At the same time, mathematics and astronomy changed our understanding of Earth’s place in our galaxy.
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