Rene Descartes and Princess Elisabeth, Correspondence - Introduction to Philosophy

[@GregoryBSadler]

new course video from Intro to Philosophy, gearing up for Descartes' Passions of the Soul later this week

[@MissTimBurtonFan]

Amazing lecture! You're a great teacher - I wish all teachers were this great at their job! Thanks for sharing :)

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks! Very nice to hear!

[@panzerKO]

Thank you very much for the lecture, Mr. Sadler. Your rather informal and incisive didactic method (or the lack of) and delivery remind me very much of one of the finest professors at University of São Paulo, USP - ECA, Clóvis de Barros Filho. If you ever feel like improving your Portuguese, on youtube there is a huge amount of Mr. Clovis de Barros' recorded lectures, classes and etc

[@GregoryBSadler]

Hahaha! I'd have to improve the very little Portuguese I know considerably to benefit at all from watching him. But, I appreciate the recommendation!

[@ibrahimalrashed4035]

Firstly I really want to thank you for uploading this video and allowing us to benefit from you. I hope that I am not bothering you by asking you to clarify one point to me. The point is that, you said the body could affect the mind in some ways the first is that when we feel tired it is hard to focus in the lecture and the second way which I have difficulties to understand is that you said the body could affect the mind in another way too, like how do you know I am here in this class? That you could know by touching me and see if you feel my existence or your hand will just go through me, which means I am not here; therefore, you do not exists. My question here is that these perceptions come from our mind and is not the mind doing all the work here not that the body affecting the mind but the mind affecting itself in some ways, as if there is no mind there will be no perceptions that will result in having absence of certainty about your existence in the class? many thanks Ibrahim

[@GregoryBSadler]

Here's Descartes' view: perceptions occur in the mind. They may come from the mind on some cases, or come from (i.e. be caused by what is occurring with) the body. "If there is no mind" -- that's never going to be an issue, right, since if there's any matter to be resolved, there's a mind for which that is a matter to be resolved

[@ibrahimalrashed4035]

Gregory B. Sadler thank you, you could't have been more helpful

[@ctheestallion]

Thank you so much for the lecture!! Really helpful 😊 Notes: 15:00

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@jaybk718]

Steven Seagal out here teaching philosophy. Lol. Thanks, professor this helped immensely

[@GregoryBSadler]

Lol, as the kids say

[@SuperFabiola12345]

Thanks for the video professor!

[@GregoryBSadler]

+Fabiola Ortiz You're welcome!

[@Atavist89]

About your point about wanting yourself to be happy: Isn't it true that if you fake-laugh for long enough, you'll start laughing for real? So can't our body in some sense act on our mind?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Sure, the body acts on the mind -- Descartes says explicitly that it does, as do I and some of my students in the video. Notice that in this case, this is the mind acting on itself through willing bodily actions, which then have an effect (after a while) on the mind

[@boneynerd]

These students need masks holy shit the amount of sick sneezing students is insane [covid 2021] lol

[@GregoryBSadler]

When do you think this video was produced?

[@boneynerd]

@@GregoryBSadler I know its older I was just trying to pass on some sarcasm. Great lecture though! I enjoy your videos a lot.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you enjoy the videos