Rene Descartes

PG. 3 - "various considerations about the branches of knowledge..." got it.

PG. 4 - Descartes starts his book with an ideology of what common sense, or the idea of knowledge, means to man and their opinions of themselves. It is interesting that he accepts the fact he is not the smartest man on earth and has just as much sense as every other person in the world, which makes him stand out as even more of an intellectual. At the end of the page... here comes his childhood.

PG. 6 - Dodged childhood. This book seems to be more preaching of ideology or a mthod to success via, "this is the way I did it," than anything. instead of recounting his life story so far he is recounting his ideals and opinions of life.
I like the whole "I read it all and it only made me doubt more," stuff. Seems that early on he realized a higher meaning to life.

PG. 9 - After recounting his opinions of theology, mathematics, philosophy, and other school works, he finally gets to the most autobiographic part yet... he leave school with an education. He wants to live in a world that will educate him further than another mans words... funny he then ends up writing to educate and philosophize to us... what a paradox.

PG. 28 - After skipping a couple of chapters we come to a place where Descartes is analyzing mind over body. His doubt of modern knowledge is still very present even though he himself throws his worldly education out to be absorbed.

PG. 33 - Descartes' truths are a philosophized proof of the existence of God. I'll admit that I skimmed through it loosing most of what he probably truly meant but the idea of arguing for something is pushing his thoughts towards a person in general. This is something that at the very beginning Descartes said doesn't work for true knowledge, taking the claims of another person as absolute fact. So I'll just sit on the fence for now.