Edward Taylor was considered to be one of America's foremost colonial poet's. Taylor was a devoted Puritan, and agreed with the Calvinistic beliefs of his time. The Literature Criticism by Person states, "Puritans felt that "Man's duty is to seek and to emulate God, which he can do by a kind of reverse metaphorical process, though full symbolic embodiment is beyond human process" (11: 401). In Taylor's poem, "God's Determinations", he shows a similarity to English metaphysical poets.
Monday, December 25, 2017
The first Medititations
The only certainty, Descartes contends, is that I exist. Through his method of doubt, all else has been proven to contain some element of doubt, and thus cannot be trusted as absolutely certain. In the Discourse, Descartes says, "... I noticed that while I was trying... to think everything false, it was necessary that I, who was thinking this, was something. And observing that this truth 'I am thinking, therefore I exist' was so firm and sure that all the most extravagant suppositions of the sceptics were incapable of shaking it, I decided that I could accept it without scruple as the first principle of the philosophy I was seeking.
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