And so it begins.

       Brittany kind of stole my thunder a little bit, but that’s ok. This topic is perfect for Honors. This is really the philosophy that we use for everything in our classes no matter what the topic is. Our Honors moto is “Only what is won from the darkness will stand.” That means that we have to tear things down, doubt everything we have been taught, ask the questions that hurt, wrestle, struggle, suffer into truth. And you definitely will.

      With that being said, I feel that process is the main theme and objective of this text. DesCartes has gone through this process and in Meditation II, I feel like we find him at the end of his initial suffering and wrestling. He is at the absolute bottom and everything has been stripped away. He compares his situation to being “just as if I had fallen all of a sudden into very deep water, I am so greatly disconcerted as to be unable either to plant my feet firmly on the bottom or sustain myself by swimming on the surface.” Then his next step is to build up. He reaches the point where he wants and has such a desire to learn and to reach an end that it is all he wants. He has to see it through to completion. He says “I will always continue on this track until I shall find something that is certain, or at least, if I can do nothing more, until I shall know with certainty that there is nothing certain.”

      This is the thought process that will be used for everything this semester. DesCartes challenges us with this. It is not an easy thing to doubt everything. Thinking about the reasons why we believe something that we always have thought to be true isn’t at the top of most people’s favorite pastimes, but it is important. So I pass this challenge on to you and urge you to accept it. It is scary and hard, but it will be the most worthwhile endeavor you have ever done.

For a bit of nostalgia since our dear Mr. Crews is no longer posting, I will say it,

Dive Deep.
Drown Willingly.

Kelsey Moore

P.S. I commented on Brittany's post.