Descartes on How To Not Make Mistakes

[@emmanuelsimon8607]

Thanks for the video! At 11:50, you state that for Descartes, error happens when we decide to believe more than we can know. Perhaps I may be oversimplifying, but it seems Descartes flipped Augustine and Anselm's "I believe so that I may understand " to "I understand so that I may believe" Is his understanding of error's origin incompatible with Faith? (Take Abraham's attempted Sacrifice of Issac, for example.)I understand that he is or at least claims to be a Christian, so I suspect he's making a distinction that I'm not seeing. Again, thanks for a thought provoking video!

[@TeacherOfPhilosophy]

Superb question! He is definitely following a different strategy, more or less the reverse of "I believe in order that I may understand." But he does say things about revering Christian theology in _Discourse on Method_ Book I. This calls for careful interpretation! I'm not sure I'm up for it. I'll just make a guess here. _Maybe_ the "no believing more than you know" thing only applies on certain areas. Where we can't know much but have a reliable authority we have some different rules.

[@philosophyversuslogic]

Mistakes are the stepping stones to learning. Mistakes are good, they are necessary. What is a life without a mistake? The life of a robot? Do mistakes, it's okay

[@nameless-yd6ko]

errors ARE learning!

[@philosophyversuslogic]

@@nameless-yd6ko And what's the difference?

[@nameless-yd6ko]

@@philosophyversuslogic Perspective! ;) That's the only 'difference' between anything! There is only One Truth, all-inclusive! The First Law of Soul Dynamics; "For every Perspective, there is an equal and opposite Perspective!" "The complete Universe/Mind/Reality/Truth/God... or any feature herein, can only be completely defined/described as the synchronous sum-total of all Perspectives!"

[@philosophyversuslogic]

@@nameless-yd6ko There are lots of teachers, but almost none wise people. Why everyone tries to teach you? What's wrong with people? Where all those simple good things? The world's turned the wrong way.

[@nameless-yd6ko]

@@philosophyversuslogic I hear your unhappiness, but I'm not sure what your particular complaint is? You are right about the teachers and the 'wise' (for what it's worth). I answer questions. I guess that you can call that 'teaching', depending on the perspective. But I never claimed 'wisdom'! Ewwww! ;)

[@nameless-yd6ko]

It seems that his famous Cogito was, in itself, a 'mistake'; close but no cigar! The simple truth that; "I think therefor you are!" proves that Descartes' initial search for 'Universal Truth' hadn't ended. Until the update. The critically updated version of the 'Cogito' is; "Thoughts are perceived/appear, therefore an apparent 'I' to think 'I am'!" Thought = Ego!

[@MuhammadSohaib-n5v]

Between Nonbeing and God assumes a very primitive binary classification present in various metaphysical systems. Descartes's geometry might have influenced his meditations, the world outside the mind exists but can't be perceived, only postulated in theory by high minds like Descartes.

[@nameless-yd6ko]

the world outside the mind exists ~~~ That can only be a 'belief'. There can be no evidence, nor has there ever been evidence of anything 'out there' beyond Mind/concepts.