upn_blog_hum_man on wire_05 oct Once the feat was complet – describ as “the artistic crime of the century” – the daring French artist was arrest. According to him, he felt more threaten during the struggle with the gendarmes when they were taking him into custody, than hanging on the cable without any protection and securing a two-meter pole to help him maintain his balance. Once at the police station, he was question. The agents, astonish like everyone else – except, of course, for the friends who had help him carry out the act – ask him why he had dar to endanger his life in this way and contravene the rules that prevent access to the newly built Twin Towers.
In a passage of the documentary, Petit, overcome with emotion when remembering those moments, says: "They didn't understand that there didn't have to be a reason . " The search for unshakable foundations from which reality could be explain and the effort to Europe Cell Phone Number List establish exactly the way in which we acquire knowlge about it gave life to the great task that was boldly undertaken, among other modern aspects, by the rationalist systems of the XVII century. Descartes found that primordial support in the subject, and more precisely, in subjectivity, in the act of thinking.
Man, in the end, was nothing more than a thinking substance, or to put it as he put it, man was, ultimately, res cogitans , a thing that thinks. It is possible to question everything – he will tell us in the Metaphysical Mitations and in the Discourse on Method –, except for thought itself. “I think, therefore I am” – an expression of an original intuition that Descartes prid himself on having discover – is the statement that culminat his project. Thought, Descartes assum, constitut the support on which knowlge had to be built , but this time, by his work and unlike previous attempts, seamlessly and definitively.