But as far as impulses are concerned, in the past I have often judged myself to have been driven by them to make the poorer choice when it was a question of choosing a good; and I fail to see why I should place any greater faith in them than in other matters.
i feel descartes is saying that his natural impulses are wrong and poor because he did not think about them morally and if God would approve of them. He says in the beginning of this paragraph that he has been taught by nature and that he is driven by spontaneous impulses to believe and nature is not showing him the truth. So there has to be a higher being which is God who has to show him the truth.
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codi, i agree with you on this. there are many times when a person has to stop and look at everything in the big picture as appose to just doing what first comes to mind.
Your example is very helpful. He is kind of saying stop doing what your impulses tell you to do that minute and actually sit down and realize what you are actually going to be getting yourself into.
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