Descartes Meditation I - Of the things which may be brought into Doubt

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Weird thought. If people wake up when they die in their dreams. What if you die, and with the exact moment you die in this world, you randomly just wake up somewhere else and wonder if you had a nightmare just now.

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Now that I finally understand what he saying I have to take it as false because he could be deceiving me

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Decartes seemed...disturbed. I hope his mind was put at ease. I can't imagine living that way, thinking everything is a lie.

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As far as I know he didn't actually believe in such solipsistic scepticism. Rather, he wanted to counter the skeptics by taking their doubts to the extreme and then building to certain truths to destroy them.

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I started studying philosophy because I wanted to understand certain things. And I found that more than giving answers, they are actually confusing me more. So I totally relate with what you are saying. Even my parents warned me that studying philosophy can have some undesirable consequences if the approach wasn't right. But after I read what Buddha said about philosophical thinking, my mind was put at ease. Now, I study all of them and I enjoy them and they no longer confuse me. Rather they help me become a better person, no matter where they are coming from. The idea of Buddha was that don't take philosophy very seriously. And same approach is in Upnishads too. Even today, many good spiritual gurus teach that stuff. The idea is... Don't take it too seriously. If discovery of absolute truth is what you seek, then don't tend to seek closure or an ultimate philosophy. It is a lifelong quest. Each philosophical argument is somewhat a description of that truth. Every philosopher tries to approach it but even if someone ever reached it, you would not reach it merely by reading their experiences. So you must have your own way, seeking guidance from those who tried to reach there before you.

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"Woah, that's scary" lmao Great explanation in the form of a Socratic dialogue - thanks for the excellent clarification of this important idea from Descartes!

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i do agree that knowledge comes from the senses... however true that knowledge is is another matter, since we might be dealing with semantics here... if knowledge itself is not discovered but created then true knowledge can be derived from the senses... on the contrary, if knowledge is something external to us humans... then, i shall wait for the next videos on Descartes :)

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Im still looking for whether he completely defeats the dream argument

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I want whatever Descartes is smoking.

[@italktoomuch6442]

Going off at a tangent, why must god be benevolent? I can - kinda - understand why someone must come to the conclusion that there must be some supreme creator, but why the hell should they care about our welfare?! Why not a sadistic god, or a bored and disinterested god? This always stuck out at me when hearing about people like Thomas Aquinas.

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If God is not benevolent you will either live in hell or do not exist at all and it can only be one of those three. (Do not try to put human in the position of God and think of an all-powerful being with no human faults)

[@gomez3357]

An all evil God cannot exist because an all evil God would be maximally selfish and not willing to share existence with anybody, but we can at least prove we exist, some people have said that he would need to create other beings to maximize evil and suffering, but then this God would be dependent on other beings to be maximally evil making him not all powerful

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@@gomez3357 That's a hell of a lot of assumptions you're making there.

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@@italktoomuch6442 no it’s not because if is God is all evil the rest must logically follow

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[@sam3d]

why do you call this a meditation?

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We do not call it a meditation this is how Descartes referred to it. A common definition of a meditation is “the act of thinking about something very carefully and deeply for a long time.” This is exactly what Descartes has done. He has thought long and hard about every aspect of his reality.

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[@Lex-zq3mb]

So I remember his thing on solipsism that nothing can be certain outside the self, but if he believes in a god with a “benevolent” will, he is acknowledging a sentience outside himself. I also remember in a last video you explained a similar logic could only stay if he was god himself, which also makes no sense if he has numerous consciences and does not know his own will. I think his argument breaks here, but I do think it’s a great contribution he acknowledged the self is probably the truest fact of all.

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the end result of descartes is gnosticism. im right again. woohoo.

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