Descartes Introduction: Meditations

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Thanks! It's important to have people who are spreading truth and wise words !

[@johnarbuckle2619]

My infatuation with philosophy started with Descartes. There's something beautiful and pretty straightforward about the way he indagates: he starts with the subject (the self) and from there he tackles the question of knowledge. It's wonderfully naive by today's standards, but back in the day it was revolutionary and together with Galileo and Hobbes he puts the final nail in the coffin of scholasticism (and to Aristotelian dogma)

[@Shreyaa81]

@@thotslayer9914 To be fair, his ontological argument is pretty naive even by theological standards

[@Shreyaa81]

@@thotslayer9914 How is it more about teleology? His argument for the existence of God relies more on assuming that God exists in order to prove that God exists, rather than an argument from intelligent design.

[@Shreyaa81]

@@thotslayer9914 I consider myself an atheist

[@Shreyaa81]

@@thotslayer9914 Oh right, I see. No, I'm not convinced of a transcendent, metaphysical being. Honestly, I don't quite know how to label myself. I'm still pretty new to philosophy so I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm metaphysically naturalist

[@adaptercrash]

The self he think he had knowledge in a cupboard or something they made ia movie, it's dumb. You know the Indian in the cupboard

[@marcsmit9873]

Reread "Meditations" recently and was struck by how great Descartes' writing is. Great video!

[@lukajung9051]

See the Discourse translated by Kennignton 2007!!!

[@pancakebears]

I'm studying Descartes' Meditations for a Philosophy class and I struggle a lot with focusing. However, your take on this presentation was so captivating! Great work :)

[@johnarbuckle2619]

Beautiful and very professional presentation.

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I absolutely adore such format of the videos! Hopefully, more to come in the future! Thank you!

[@waqaskhanmomand7103]

Fascinating! keep up the the good work .I have read the discourse and you have tempted me to read Meditations. Thank you

[@laurenceraran4027]

Very good timing, just got Descartes’ Meditations from the library!

[@arsenelupin123]

Didn't know that Descartes was channeling Anselm so much

[@vCoralSandsv]

Fantastic! Lots to consider!

[@Daniel-Strain]

Wonderful overview, thanks! :)

[@logos9391]

I don't think Descartes is talking about Meditation in the same way a Buddhist means meditation. He's not talking about sitting cross legged and clearing the mind of all it's content. He's talking about using rationality to find axioms (first principles).

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Sir please make a video on Dworkin and his Theory on Equality

[@palmirakis]

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[@stormrider1375]

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Idk bro that i exist seems pretty sound

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[@the_famous_reply_guy]

Reality shakes

[@wyleong4326]

Decartes sounds like a Buddhist.

[@d4v0r_x]

who came to one certainty and began a new philisophy - by meditation? still, in the end, self-deception

[@katharinastahlhofen8964]

how to embarrass yourself: creating a youtube channel about history, politics and philosophy without a single video dedicated to a female thinker. that is....... audacious, to put it euphemistically. would be interesting to hear how you want to explain, let alone justify that.

[@codyvandal2860]

How about this: It's his channel and he is under no obligation to you or anyone else to feature any particular philosophers or thinkers or to explain his reasons for doing so. He doesnt need to "justify" anything to you or anyone else.

[@katharinastahlhofen8964]

@@codyvandal2860 We're speaking about a public youtube channel that clearly followes an educational approach, so it's definitely not a private matter. Therefore it doesn't seem very reasonable to tell someone it's not their place to voice criticism when public platforms are quite literally supposed to be the site of discussion within a democracy. Besides, this is obviously not about "me" or any other individual, but a question of an accurate depiction of reality in a broader sense. When someone creates a channel about history, politics and philosophy without a single video dedicated to a female or non-white person, then this reveals not only a strong bias towards a male-centered and white-supremacist view of history, it is therefore also a severe deviation from reality.

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Such pc bs Embrace the video. It's not his job to cater to the masses.

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@@lukajung9051 she's not wrong. Everyone is within their right to interpret this content, you not liking it doesn't make her wrong