René Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy (audiobook)

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  • René Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy is one of the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy. Here in a well read and easily accessible audiobook.
    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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  • @lecturesbeyondbeyond
    @lecturesbeyondbeyond  2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    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

  • @garyricketts5064
    @garyricketts5064 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    This piece is so well read! The cadence allows us to process Descartes’s argumentation without losing a beat! It is so hard to read philosophy via an audiobook but this man pulls it off! Kudos!

    • @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858
      @anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      _he takes as many takes as it takes to rightly leave it be._
      _It is crystalline. It resounds as a whole. So the ideas LIVE on._
      _he understands the text. NEVER listen to piece not understood by the reader. What does it mean to understand? Turn within a moment._

    • @christopherhamilton7112
      @christopherhamilton7112 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed! Thanks whoever he is

  • @christopherhamilton7112
    @christopherhamilton7112 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The reader is the best possible! Whoever he is.
    I wish he could read all my audio books

  • @yoganbutty390
    @yoganbutty390 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The reader is awesome! Thank you for producing this!

  • @philchristensen2787
    @philchristensen2787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Wow. Love this guy! Thanks for the upload.

    • @wendigo2442
      @wendigo2442 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Man just shut up

  • @brendanliddell240
    @brendanliddell240 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you very much for this reading. It is very much appreciated.

  • @irisdutra5033
    @irisdutra5033 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Descartes is giving me stoner contemplating vibes lol

    • @surgeland9084
      @surgeland9084 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Except that he isn't thinking. The European mind wasn't capable of conscious thought until 1848.

    • @dubbelkastrull
      @dubbelkastrull ปีที่แล้ว

      @@surgeland9084
      What do you mean?

    • @bensonchannel8676
      @bensonchannel8676 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dubbelkastrull I think it's sarcastic

    • @shlomo8448
      @shlomo8448 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@surgeland9084 LoL 😂😂

    • @christopherhamilton7112
      @christopherhamilton7112 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Get off tha gas bruh

  • @SuperGreatSphinx
    @SuperGreatSphinx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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.

  • @RobinBeirne
    @RobinBeirne 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thank you for uploading

  • @joha4574
    @joha4574 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Very nicely read!

  • @asptzedu
    @asptzedu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your voice is so perfect for this reading!

  • @mocha_genie7416
    @mocha_genie7416 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, for reading this aloud!

  • @NathanaelKuechenberg
    @NathanaelKuechenberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Second meditation 46:50

  • @NathanaelKuechenberg
    @NathanaelKuechenberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

    • @Maya-xb9ll
      @Maya-xb9ll 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you :)

  • @mayrondharma7710
    @mayrondharma7710 ปีที่แล้ว

    great.

  • @NathanaelKuechenberg
    @NathanaelKuechenberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    12:20 Preface

  • @micahgranada16
    @micahgranada16 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @kingloser221
    @kingloser221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    31:14 First Meditation

    • @kingloser221
      @kingloser221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      46:47 End First Meditation

    • @kingloser221
      @kingloser221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1:14:52 End Second Meditation

    • @kingloser221
      @kingloser221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2:01:16 End Third Meditation

    • @kingloser221
      @kingloser221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2:24:30 End Fourth Meditation

    • @kingloser221
      @kingloser221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2:42:40 End Fifth Meditation

  • @user-dm1jr4nr1w
    @user-dm1jr4nr1w 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi! May I ask what translation this is?

  • @charlesbourgoigne2130
    @charlesbourgoigne2130 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @lolade5338
    @lolade5338 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Could you read the Michael moriarty translation please

  • @NathanaelKuechenberg
    @NathanaelKuechenberg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @kazzz2765
    @kazzz2765 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:35:00

  • @joshuajoseph2164
    @joshuajoseph2164 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:15:48

  • @joha4574
    @joha4574 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:46:00

  • @user-kw8ot3qc9l
    @user-kw8ot3qc9l 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Based af

  • @benwil6048
    @benwil6048 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @thefinnishbolshevik2404
      @thefinnishbolshevik2404 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm sure he would have claimed it only changed the brain's capacity to interact with the mind

    • @benwil6048
      @benwil6048 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      TheFinnishBolshevik maybe, but would that explain for a completely different personality?

    • @thefinnishbolshevik2404
      @thefinnishbolshevik2404 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      According to Descartes maybe, but not according to modern science

    • @DreamlessSleepwalker
      @DreamlessSleepwalker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you actually listen to the explanation of pain in meditation 6?

    • @benwil6048
      @benwil6048 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DreamlessSleepwalker feel free to link the timestamp as I don't have time to start looking for it atm

  • @etemnella
    @etemnella ปีที่แล้ว

    57:44 bookmark

  • @vessle_
    @vessle_ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:00:55

  • @n2skitchen
    @n2skitchen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bookmark 1:14:51

    • @n2skitchen
      @n2skitchen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bookmark 2:01:18

    • @n2skitchen
      @n2skitchen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bookmark 2:24:29

    • @n2skitchen
      @n2skitchen 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bookmark 2:42:43

  • @Mehri-zm8rs
    @Mehri-zm8rs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @jameshayes729
    @jameshayes729 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @mihailamarcel5201
    @mihailamarcel5201 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @azoth_junky
    @azoth_junky 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    58:31

  • @user-iu6ug5cr9g
    @user-iu6ug5cr9g 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @guy-s
    @guy-s 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:37:16 bookmark

  • @lutfihasani7530
    @lutfihasani7530 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    34:00

  • @cheapjake8161
    @cheapjake8161 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    20:35

  • @Johnepumper
    @Johnepumper 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    31:18

  • @ahmedabdelmoniem8890
    @ahmedabdelmoniem8890 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hola khaled

  • @dubbelkastrull
    @dubbelkastrull 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.."

  • @ClintonWanjala-es1yg
    @ClintonWanjala-es1yg 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    M.I.N.D

  • @timmy18135
    @timmy18135 ปีที่แล้ว

    23:47🔥

  • @dexterj5615
    @dexterj5615 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This guy politely telling the church that blind faith is dumb

  • @Paraselene_Tao
    @Paraselene_Tao 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Word soup

    • @Paraselene_Tao
      @Paraselene_Tao 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Rationalist001 I liked Discourse on the Method more. Maybe it was the translation, maybe it my mood. I'm not sure why I didn't like this one as much as Discourse on the Method. I'll relisten to this later.

  • @surgeland9084
    @surgeland9084 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @66xXDeathIsNearXx66
      @66xXDeathIsNearXx66 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      As opposed to …?

    • @surgeland9084
      @surgeland9084 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@66xXDeathIsNearXx66 Eastern canon, Africana, and pre-colonial American philosophy are all much better than the farcical nonsense of western canon.

    • @66xXDeathIsNearXx66
      @66xXDeathIsNearXx66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i take it ur not a big of fan of hegel either

    • @surgeland9084
      @surgeland9084 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@66xXDeathIsNearXx66 No. He is incredibly overrated.

    • @aloisia1118
      @aloisia1118 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you have a philosopher you do prefer or recommend?

  • @thefinnishbolshevik2404
    @thefinnishbolshevik2404 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:39:00