Descartes Single Planner

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Single Planner Works, buildings, cities, and laws are more delightful and organized when they have a single planner that is the reason why people should approve and favour single planning works rather than looking for multiple planners to carry out the tasks. Descartes argues that the works, which made out of several parts, of one person is usually better and closer to perfection than the works of various different people. The achievements and accomplishments from the efforts of single organizers and individuals are more successful and beautiful than the achievements of group efforts. The laws, religions, and cities are much organized, elegant, and regular when they have one planner than a group of people who plan and organize things by various …show more content…

Descartes says that “there is usually less perfection in works composed of several parts and produced by various different craftsmen than there is in the works of one man.” Descartes brought craftsmen as an example to say that a thing is better if it has a solitary planner. If several craftsmen want to create a basket, each of them will have different ideas to create the basket. One prefers a big basket; another favours a little basket; another lean towards a colourful basket; another prefers a black white basket, so they will not reach an agreement on such a simple thing; what about huge and significant things. These ideas of preferring single planner created a believing in the mind of Descartes. Descartes expresses that people should follow the instructions of their reasons alone instead of letting others to effect their decisions and reasons because others will disturb the effectiveness of a single planner by their own beliefs and reasons. If people do not follow their reasons, other reasons will direct and influence them. For instance, since kids do not have their reasons in daily life, someday, their desires will control them; someday, their teacher govern them; someday, their family manage them, so there will be many conflicts between the desires of their family with educators and also with the desires of themselves. Therefore, …show more content…

Sulaymaniyah is an example and the result of various different plans that made this city to be an unattractive city. The roads are irregular and the houses and buildings are arranged in strange ways; one building is high; one is small, one is 5 meter before another, one is built on a triangle land, so there is not pretty plans and standards which all things belong to them. To build a beautiful city there must be a planner to say that the roads should be designed this way, the building should have these standards, and people should not build their houses anywhere they want otherwise the result will be a city like Sulaymaniyah. Descartes also successfully implied this believing on the laws and want to say that if the laws devised by one person, the results will be effective even if the laws are not good. Nowadays, some Kurds say that the days which Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq, things were going better because one person devised all the laws and plans, and the laws were equal to all Iraqi civilians. Iraq is not good anymore like those days because now there are many rulers and people who do not even follow their own rules and do not reach an agreement on the laws and