PHILOSOPHY - René Descartes

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[porsche-dd]

damn if they were shocked to see him in bed at 11am, i would like to see their reaction when i am in bed at 3pm

[Kumahachi]

Descartes walks into a bar.

"Would you like a drink, sir?" the bartender asks.

Descartes responds with, "I think not, " and ceases to exist.

[Kelvin_Eclectic]

In the world of social media it's nice to get away from meme posts and celebrity news, and instead go back to what really matters, Knowledge.

[marcsoucie]

Descartes doesn't say he hoped into a stove. He meditated and developed his method while living in a small room heated by a stove. Such a room was called "poêle" which is the french word for stove. when recounting this In his "Discours de la méthode", he is referring to the room, not the stove itself.

[montenegrin]

I was sort of expecting a few remarks on his mathematical genius. It is often overlooked by people how the most brilliant of mathematicians were at the same time rather sober and helpful thinkers...

[GrumpyOldMan]

0:17 rationalist
1:08 method of doubts
1:53 individual experience and reason
3:00 cogito ergo sum
5:39 passions of the soul
6:40 six passions

[superiorseven]

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[kainochishi]

When it's 3am and you're awake, reflecting on your own existence

"I think, there I don't sleep"

[Sytch]

Not even one mention of him as a mathematician.. =(

[PunkOnARant]

The internet has proved René wrong. There's plenty of people out there who has never been thinking a single thought their whole lifes, but apparantly they still exist.

[davidkugel]

Descartes is a very important person. He is regarded as the father of modern philosophy. He is also regarded as the father of modern mathematics. That is amazing. As a math teacher, I used his coordinate plane every day.

[NilanjanPaul]

Descartes is currently my favorite PHILOSOPHER 💙

[thedonbanks]

Whenever I think of the meditations of Rene, I feel life depends on an individuals mind..virtue and was man who never belief in dualism....

[samrandomguy]

I absolutely love Descartes's books. Specially the ' Meditations on First Philosophy', it was so personal and his emotions and thoughts were vividly expressed as he imparts his wisdom. It's absolutely wonderful.

[bolivar]

I thought about Eratosthenes! The guy who calculated the circumference of the world 2300 years ago! He only used his own reasoning and two sticks for that! ( And a poor guy whose name is not written nowhere, who was - hopefully properly - paid by him to walk 800 km to measure the distance between those sticks. May he rest in peace... History is so unfair.)
Or let's remember Democritus and Leucippus and their speculation on atoms 2500 years ago! Or someone like Newton who all by himself discovered the laws of optics, laws of motion, universal law of gravitation and invented calculus! So Descartes certainly had a point there when he argued that we must trust the strength and the capacity of our own minds.

But still: I think it is a much wiser approach not to divide the world into " me and the others", but to see those others " as a part of yourself". This way you would be very kind to everybody and you would respect and consider their thoughts, and value their legacy as a part of our shared human experience. Besides, if you are so confident in your own reasoning why should you be afraid of being " badly influenced" by other people's opinions? Therefore "seeking no knowledge other than that which could be found in yourself" may not be all that reasonable....

Thank you very much for another wonderful lesson!

[youreright]

4:05 To elaborate on this (because I don't think it's done justice here), Descartes believes you can doubt pretty much everything due to a theoretical demon (or matrix, dream, or whatever). But even if, for instance, a demon existed that sought to trick him, there must be something (i.e a medium) to be tricked: his own mind. The one piece of knowledge that cannot be doubted is the sheer existence of his mind, even if one considered these illusory-inducing factors. The process of thought (questioning, observing, reasoning, doubting, etc.) has led him to the conclusion of his mind's existence. That doesn't necessarily mean the body exists, but for Descartes, this was good enough. The clearer version of cogito ergo sum is therefore "I am a thinking being, therefore, I exist".

[agathacccc]

"I think therefore I am" was first written in the metaphysical meditations I believe :)

[leteveryoneknow]

+The School of Life Thank you for introducing me to this great philosopher. I think I am going to read more about his works.

[Master_Therion]

I hate to be "that guy, " but at 3:18 the book shown was Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton. I only noticed because I was so impressed by the animations. They were great... like, Terry Gilliam level animations!!!

[paulhenderson]

In around fourth grade or earlier maybe, I had the idea that I know that I exist, but I didn’t know that anyone else did. It’s really cool to know that an old philosopher had the same idea, but way later in life.