Rene Descartes - Academic Subjects and Foundations of Knowledge - Philosophy Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Rene Descartes' work The Discourse on Method, specifically on his evaluation in book 1 of the academic subjects that he studied, and their capacities to provide us with genuine knowledge. He considers languages, history, literature, poetry, rhetoric, theology, philosophy, and mathematics.
The only subject in which he is able to find certain and incontrovertible proofs - agreement among its practitioners - is mathematics. Philosophy up to his time - in Descartes' view - cannot provide proper foundations for the other disciplines, because philosophers disagree with each other and their principles.
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Thank you for the wonderful content you provide for us.
You're very welcome!
Fascinating! I knew Descartes was incredibly important for the development of mathematics, but I didn't know that he was also an important philosopher. Very much looking forwards to the other videos in this series.
He's often called THE father of modern philosophy. I think that we should think in terms of multiple figures, but he is indeed central
I recently worked through some Aristotle (Politics and Rhetoric) without any assistance from your videos. Although I found both works to be very interesting, both in their own right, I missed having your core concept videos by my side when reading the texts. Taking a bit of a break from ancient philosophy and moving on to the modern era I look forward to reading both the discourse and the meditations along with watching your videos. I send the utmost gratitude all the way from Sweden!
You know that I have videos covering Politics book 1, I hope
This is amazing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hello, Dr. Sadler.
I've learned a lot from your videos and I can't thank you enough for your tremendous efforts.
I'd also like to know what translation of Discourse on Method you think is the best.
Thank you.
th-cam.com/video/tCyjm58NUos/w-d-xo.html
@@GregoryBSadler OK, but what translation are you using?
I was trying to follow your reading on gutenberg but realized that was not what you were using.
@@michaelberen1 It's right there in the video description. First line. Think and look before you ask
@@GregoryBSadler thanks
Hi Dr.Sadler. I wanted to thank you for making these valuable videos available. I have been reading philosophy for over a year now. There are some philosophers who are not as important as others. Is it ok to read important philosophers and skip the ones we don't like? For example, is it ok to read only Plato and Aristotle and then move on to Descartes?
If you want to miss a lot of good stuff, sure, go ahead and make that jump. It's ok - it's not like the philosophy police are going to put you in philosophy jail!
Hello Professor. Hope ypu are doing well. Professor could I find John Austin and Jean Bodin in your lecture series?
If you use search and it's not there, it's not there
I had a problem with one passage in this first part. Decartes begins with the assertion that "reason is equal for everyone", he proceeds to define reason as "the capacity to distinguish true or false". Well, later in the text when he talks about travel and experience, he says that he wants to grown in this capacity to distinguish true or false. My problem is that he seems to say that we have the same capacity in the beggining and later that we have different capacities (equal in potency maybe?). What would be the correct reading? Thankyou for your time, professor.
Different people develop and use that capacity differently. Pretty straightforward to think yourself past this one
good day professor! I am really a big fan of you. I just want to ask you four questions that I hope you can respond.
in Descartes philosophy on knowledge; What can you know? What can you not know? How can you know? Why can you not know these things? These are the questions I just want to be answered. Thank you!
Not sure why you're asking those here, when you can find them in the text, or discussed in the video series
Decartes, cool. Will you be speaking about his consciousness ideas?
From a cartesian perspective, all ideas are consciousness ideas, right?
Should one read the discourse on the method first before meditations? My professor from last year said that you can start with meditations. Thanks!
You can read them in whatever order you like. Plan to reread them multiple times, like any good book
@@GregoryBSadler Thank you and is there any video on annotating philosophical texts? I plan on writing my own papers but when it comes to annotations I'm unsure of what to do.
@@ace9924 There are hundreds of ways you can take notes in texts. I don't do any of them
@@GregoryBSadler so essentially its your own way of taking notes that ultimately matters.
@@ace9924 I wouldn't even draw that conclusion.
Like I said, there's many ways of doing it. I'm not a note-taker, so if you are, you should go to those who are as well
Is having children part of stoic duties? This is a point of contention, and disagreement, among modern stoics on forums. What are your thoughts?
I think that's not relevant to this video. th-cam.com/video/iJE3pkvH4s0/w-d-xo.html