René Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy (audiobook)

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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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

[brendanliddell]

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

[garyricketts]

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!

[irisdutra]

Descartes is giving me stoner contemplating vibes lol

[asptzedu]

Your voice is so perfect for this reading!

[SuperGreatSphinx]

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.

[yoganbutty]

The reader is awesome! Thank you for producing this!

[philchristensen]

Wow. Love this guy! Thanks for the upload.

[NathanaelKuechenberg]

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

[mocha_genie]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for reading this aloud! <3 I really wish my professors gave us this as a reference but I found you all by myself. I love your Youtube username!

[christopherhamilton]

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

[jameshayes]

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

[JohnNathanealGalliguez]

Hi! May I ask what translation this is?

[dexterj]

This guy politely telling the church that blind faith is dumb

[benwil]

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

[NathanaelKuechenberg]

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

[charlesbourgoigne]

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

[mihailamarcel]

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

[lolade]

Could you read the Michael moriarty translation please

[surgeland]

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