It's a beautiful day AND the day that Rene Descartes was born.
Descartes was part of that glorious group of philosophers who re-vitalised European thinking in the 17th century, these included Spinoza, Leibniz, Hobbes, Hume, Locke, and of course Rousseau.
Having studied them all at uni, I realised that I was a child of the Enlightenment and rationality, indeed it is that very rationality that underpins my political philosophy and makes me a Liberal.
In fact it is another phrase of Descartes' that best sums up my worldview
Dubium sapientiae initium... Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
Indeed, it leads to my belief that politics should be evidence-based rather than pure dogma.
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