Chapters: 0:00 Letter of Dedication 31:14 First Meditation 46:50 Second Meditation 1:14:54 Third Meditation 2:01:19 Fourth Meditation 2:24:34 Fifth Meditation 2:42:40 Sixth Meditation

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René Descartes (Latinized: Renatus Cartesius) (adjectival form: "Cartesian") (31 March 1596 - 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of the Kingdom of France, he spent about 20 years (1629-49) of his life in the Dutch Republic after serving for a while in the Dutch States Army of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces. He is generally considered one of the most notable intellectual representatives of the Dutch Golden Age. Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes' influence in mathematics is equally apparent; the Cartesian coordinate system was named after him. He is credited as the father of analytical geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry, used in the discovery of infinitesimal calculus and analysis. Descartes was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. Descartes refused to accept the authority of previous philosophers. He frequently set his views apart from those of his predecessors. In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, an early modern treatise on emotions, Descartes goes so far as to assert that he will write on this topic "as if no one had written on these matters before". His best known philosophical statement is "I think, therefore I am" (French: Je pense, donc je suis; Latin: Ego cogito, ergo sum), found in Discourse on the Method (1637; written in French and Latin) and Principles of Philosophy (1644; written in Latin). Many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like Augustine. In his natural philosophy, he differed from the schools on two major points: first, he rejected the splitting of corporeal substance into matter and form; second, he rejected any appeal to final ends, divine or natural, in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insists on the absolute freedom of God's act of creation. Descartes laid the foundation for 17th-century continental rationalism, later advocated by Spinoza and Leibniz, and opposed by the empiricist school of thought consisting of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Leibniz, Spinoza, and Descartes were all well versed in mathematics as well as philosophy, and Descartes and Leibniz contributed greatly to science as well.

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31:13 the things which we may doubt...

Second meditation 46:50

First Meditation 31:14 Second Meditation 46:50 Third Meditation 1:14:55

Everything is a machine. That is the birth of natural philosophy and thereby science.

12:20 Preface

1:14:55 CHAPT. III "DE DEO, QUOD EXISTAT"

31:14 First Meditation

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Hi! May I ask what translation this is?

Could you read the Michael moriarty translation please

I've listened to Spinoza (the Ethics) They are Left wing vs Right wing in their concepts. I like them both 😊. Descartes is more direct. I like his ideas 💡 as well

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If only Descartes had known that changing the brain will also change the mind

Who is the translator

verey,very very ,interesting,but how hard is to focus))

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And how did this all knowing created all that there is!?

I'm confused about formal reality versus objective reality. I comprehend that objective reality comes from the intellect and formal reality by virtue of existing, but when he says that God as an idea is objectively more real than a finite substance, I get lost in the woods. Is he then again speaking of the difference between formal and objective reality? Is he purporting one is more "real" than the other? Forgive me if I seem like a dilettante, I'm merely trying to focus and understand.

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2:56:16 bookmark 1:52:00 2:30:00 2:20:00 1:46:04 "but perhaps I am more..." 1:51:48 "...some cause create me a new..." 1:53:30 Looking for the uncaused cause. 2:07:57 " I have no longer any difficulty in discerning that there is an infinity of of things in His power, whose causes transcend the grasp of my mind" 1:48:38 Descartes admits he can become too relaxed at times 1:50:05 "It would be more difficult for me to argue out of nothing than acquire the knowledge I'm missing" 1:51:11 "Even if I always existed like this, I still need an author of my existence.."

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This guy politely telling the church that blind faith is dumb

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These manic ramblings lol western canon is a joke. Good reading nonetheless though.

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