“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”*…

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The French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) is generally presented as one of the founders of modern Western philosophy and science, the man who made reason the principle of the search for truth, and who formulated the cogito, ‘I think, therefore I am.’ His assertion of mind-body dualism has given rise to a great number of objections over time, from those of 17th-century theologians to those of 20th-century feminists. In France, even though the decision of the 1792-95 National Convention to transfer Descartes’s remains to the Pantheon in Paris was not followed through, the philosopher is nonetheless regarded as ‘un grand homme’, a national hero, and being labelled ‘Cartesian’ is still today a compliment that emphasises one’s common sense, good judgment and methodical use of reason.

Yet Descartes was not always the undisputed champion of reason that he is today. In 17th-century England and the Netherlands, he was publicly and repeatedly accused of being a fraud and of lying to his readers so as to manipulate them into becoming his disciples. Of course, as one would expect, many intellectual and scientific objections were raised by his contemporaries against Descartes’s philosophy. But those ad hominem allegations were of a different nature altogether: they implied that the French philosopher resorted to well-crafted and dishonest strategies to make his readers ignorant, and therefore gullible, with the aim of making them submit to his control. Thus, according to those critics, the founder of modern science was, in truth, a purveyor of ignorance.
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This is a brilliant, chilling window into how epistemology, philosophical authority, and civilizational madness intersected in early modern Europe—and how the consequences of Descartes’s radical doubt echo in today’s propaganda wars against the Jewish people. A clear through-line from Descartes’s epistemological rupture to the modern West’s spiritual and moral collapse—a collapse that culminates in UN-sanctioned slander against the Jewish people, and traces its roots back through Christian blood libels, philosophical gaslighting, and the hatred of brit-based continuity.

Just as medieval and early modern Xtians routinely used ad hominem slander and blood libels to demonize Jews, they also wielded the same tactics against each other—particularly in philosophical-religious revolutions like the Cartesian shift. The same Lashon HaRa weaponized against the nation of the brit was also used intra-Goy, tearing apart Europe from within, culminating in the Thirty Years’ War and the Khmelnytsky massacres, in which over a million Jews may have perished.

Descartes philosophy struck at the foundation of inherited tradition. His demand that one erase all inherited knowledge to begin anew bears structural resemblance to modern ideological movements (e.g., woke deconstructionism, Xtian super-sessionism, Marxist revolutions). What the Church and Casaubon feared was not logic—but a revolution of epistemological loyalty.

Descartes is not the father of reason. He is the father of suspicion. He offers only self-certainty (“I think, therefore I am”) as the basis for truth. The result? A civilization rooted in existential anxiety and epistemic self-isolation.

Goyish European barbarians dressed “civilization”, ‘redefined knowledge’, as rupture, not continuity. This, the same civilizational model that accused Jews of deicide while corrupting and perverting their Scriptures unto the NT abomination Av tuma avoda zarah. Burned Talmuds in Paris while building Gothic cathedrals. Invented “rationalism” while slaughtering each other over creeds. And now accuses Israel of genocide while shielding Hamas and Abbas.

Descartes’s philosophy—according to Casaubon and Schoock—deliberately fostered ignorance under the guise of truth-seeking. Is this not precisely what UN “rapporteurs” like Francesca Albanese do? The UN continuously attempts to erase Jewish memory and legal claims – like UNSC Resolution 2334. The UN Human Rights rewrites and continuously introduces revisionist history just like the slander which Goyim condemned Descartes’s philosophy.

Goyim whose tuma middot spirits rejoiced as their Yatzir HaRah within their hearts employed explosive languages to arouse violent emotions like envy and hatred, specifically against Descartes – in this specific, qualifying, example.

The 30 Years War devastated Western Europe’s Xtian civilization. The Cossack revolts annihilated Jewish kehillot across Ukraine and Poland, utterly discredited the Orthodox church, it planted the seeds of Bolshevism which spouted Centuries later.

Blood libels, pogroms, and forced baptisms exploded across regions torn between “new philosophies” and old hatreds. Xtianity a dead religion, the fruits of the Shoah serve as witness. This dead religion gave “virgin birth” to a Amalek spiritual vacuum. Descartes’s “radical doubt” is a philosophical – an ambush of epistemological chaos.

Descartes’s “strip yourself of all knowledge” … calling out the European intellectual tradition as inherently untrustworthy in its claims about the כלל Jewish people, based upon the פרט how Goyim employed slander to discredit Descartes’s philosophy. Descartes’s philosophy struck at the very foundation of inherited tradition. His demand to erase all inherited knowledge based upon Papal Bulls/dogmatism. And begin anew, which structurally anticipates today’s ideological movements: woke deconstructionism, Xtian super-sessionism, Marxist revolutions. What the Church and its defenders like Casaubon feared, was not logic—it exposes a revolution of epistemological loyalty. A spiritual insurrection against transmission. Descartes – not simply the father of reason of the post church EU. He represents the father of suspicion. Descartes’s philosophy, as Casaubon and Schoock rightly saw, fostered ignorance under the guise of truth-seeking. Is this not precisely what the UN “human rights” Council now replicates? And just as Europe’s philosophers slandered Descartes to preserve their crumbling traditions, they now slander Am Yisrael to preserve their post-Xtian nihilism.