The I in physics

Philosophy and physics. Man and the external world. These subjects are inexplicably intertwined, and this paper explores the bonds between them. It starts by expanding on Descartes’ famous rationalist arguments in Meditations. It then moves on to questions of meaning and morality from Leibniz, Kant and Schopenhauer, and finishes by building man’s moral framework with arguments from Russell, Mills and Levi. This is all done within the context of man’s relationship to the external world, with the hope of reconciling the impersonal nature of science with the personal nature of philosophy.