Descartes Meditation I - Of the things which may be brought into Doubt

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Join George and John as they discuss and debate different Philosophical ideas. Today they begin their journey through Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy. This video will look into the first Meditation entitled - “Concerning those things that can be called into doubt.”
The two will look into Descartes search for truth and knowledge and discuss his method of universal doubt. Does Descartes have good reason to doubt the existence of everything, to totally disregard all knowledge he has attained throughout his life. If our senses have deceived us then is it possible they always deceive us? Could there in fact be an evil demon deceiving us at every possible moment? Are we perhaps just living in a dream world?
In order to reach the ultimate truth we must first doubt the truth of everything.
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@PhilosophyVibe 3 года назад

The script to this video is part of the Philosophy Vibe "Descartes Meditations" eBook, available on Amazon: US: www.amazon.com/dp/B088QPYR54 UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B088QPYR54 Canada: www.amazon.ca/dp/B088QPYR54 India: www.amazon.in/dp/B088QPYR54 Australia: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B088QPYR54 Germany: www.amazon.de/dp/B088QPYR54

@marquitoa8896 4 года назад

"We hope you've enjoyed the vibe"... the best line in the video haha

@adrianre9149 4 года назад

Weird thought. If people wake up when they die in their dreams. What if you die, and with the exact moment you die in this world, you randomly just wake up somewhere else and wonder if you had a nightmare just now.

@kasandra7520 Год назад

You guys make the concepts so clear and easy to understand. Thank you so much!

@PhilosophyVibe Год назад

You're welcome. glad we could help.

@morgansinclair4843 3 года назад

"Woah, that's scary" lmao Great explanation in the form of a Socratic dialogue - thanks for the excellent clarification of this important idea from Descartes!

@PhilosophyVibe 3 года назад

You're welcome. Thank you for watching.

@howtosaveabillion9362 6 лет назад

Knowledge comes from patterns, repetition, consistency, memories, experience, and awareness.

@juansepulveda3160 2 года назад

but what if the universe was created yesterday alongside you with all these memories embedded into your brain?

@danielthompson8015 3 года назад

Now that I finally understand what he saying I have to take it as false because he could be deceiving me

@kenchalant 4 года назад

Thank you for educating me so well on this. I can finally understand.

@PhilosophyVibe 4 года назад

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@danielthompson8015 3 года назад

Yeah this video finally made it all click

@tlightfury77 5 лет назад

Wow so clear! Thanks so much! Please keep it up!

@nemzino 3 года назад

This makes so much sense, thank you

@PhilosophyVibe 3 года назад

You're welcome, thanks for watching.

@zasddsaf 6 лет назад

thank you for the lucid explanation! very effective conversational structure and eye catching animations :)

@PhilosophyVibe 6 лет назад

Thank you very much!

@PropTrader24 Год назад

Thank you this is very helpful and super cool!

@lindanelson4963 4 года назад

Thank you this really helped me to understand better.

@PhilosophyVibe 4 года назад

Happy we could help :)

@Lex-zq3mb 2 года назад

So I remember his thing on solipsism that nothing can be certain outside the self, but if he believes in a god with a “benevolent” will, he is acknowledging a sentience outside himself. I also remember in a last video you explained a similar logic could only stay if he was god himself, which also makes no sense if he has numerous consciences and does not know his own will. I think his argument breaks here, but I do think it’s a great contribution he acknowledged the self is probably the truest fact of all.

@RP-db3yn 11 месяцев назад

thanks for this

@Quarkbrief Год назад

most videos i watch are very complicated on learning, this is the only channel i can understand!!

@PhilosophyVibe Год назад

Glad we could help :)

@alittax 3 месяца назад

Thank you for another excellent video!

@PhilosophyVibe 3 месяца назад

You're welcome, thanks for watching.

@jalessahunt9231 4 года назад

Decartes seemed...disturbed. I hope his mind was put at ease. I can't imagine living that way, thinking everything is a lie.

@osmandeen92 3 года назад

As far as I know he didn't actually believe in such solipsistic scepticism. Rather, he wanted to counter the skeptics by taking their doubts to the extreme and then building to certain truths to destroy them.

@priyamawasthi6254 7 месяцев назад

I started studying philosophy because I wanted to understand certain things. And I found that more than giving answers, they are actually confusing me more. So I totally relate with what you are saying. Even my parents warned me that studying philosophy can have some undesirable consequences if the approach wasn't right. But after I read what Buddha said about philosophical thinking, my mind was put at ease. Now, I study all of them and I enjoy them and they no longer confuse me. Rather they help me become a better person, no matter where they are coming from. The idea of Buddha was that don't take philosophy very seriously. And same approach is in Upnishads too. Even today, many good spiritual gurus teach that stuff. The idea is... Don't take it too seriously. If discovery of absolute truth is what you seek, then don't tend to seek closure or an ultimate philosophy. It is a lifelong quest. Each philosophical argument is somewhat a description of that truth. Every philosopher tries to approach it but even if someone ever reached it, you would not reach it merely by reading their experiences. So you must have your own way, seeking guidance from those who tried to reach there before you.

@gavintoohey6604 2 года назад

Thanks for clarifying mates :3

@PhilosophyVibe 2 года назад

Pleasure, glad it helped.

@ravioli123456 4 года назад

Im still looking for whether he completely defeats the dream argument

@zasddsaf 6 лет назад

i do agree that knowledge comes from the senses... however true that knowledge is is another matter, since we might be dealing with semantics here... if knowledge itself is not discovered but created then true knowledge can be derived from the senses... on the contrary, if knowledge is something external to us humans... then, i shall wait for the next videos on Descartes :)

@pisquilah 5 лет назад

thanks very much for this explanation! you came up with a very efficient teaching model; it is thorough and complex but retains the casual vibe needed for our concentration to be sustained! liked, shared and subscribed! :)

@PhilosophyVibe 5 лет назад

Thank you very much for this comment. Great to see these videos are useful for Philosophy students.

@nate5830 Год назад

Philosophy final attempt begins now!

@bhaskarsharma7815 Год назад

Thanks for making me anxious for life.😏

@LaynaCaldwell 3 года назад

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@juanrosas3483 Год назад

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@jonny6287 4 года назад

I had to watch this for rs homework

@dibbiedonker342 4 года назад

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@girldxck69 4 года назад

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@PhilosophyVibe 4 года назад

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@miguelromero2250 2 года назад

i feel like the guy on the left...

@ishmamtasdik 9 месяцев назад

I want whatever Descartes is smoking.

@italktoomuch6442 6 лет назад

Going off at a tangent, why must god be benevolent? I can - kinda - understand why someone must come to the conclusion that there must be some supreme creator, but why the hell should they care about our welfare?! Why not a sadistic god, or a bored and disinterested god? This always stuck out at me when hearing about people like Thomas Aquinas.

@xxx10353 5 лет назад

If God is not benevolent you will either live in hell or do not exist at all and it can only be one of those three. (Do not try to put human in the position of God and think of an all-powerful being with no human faults)

@gomez3357 2 года назад

An all evil God cannot exist because an all evil God would be maximally selfish and not willing to share existence with anybody, but we can at least prove we exist, some people have said that he would need to create other beings to maximize evil and suffering, but then this God would be dependent on other beings to be maximally evil making him not all powerful

@italktoomuch6442 2 года назад

@@gomez3357 That's a hell of a lot of assumptions you're making there.

@gomez3357 2 года назад

@@italktoomuch6442 no it’s not because if is God is all evil the rest must logically follow

@gomez3357 2 года назад

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@ramirez3160 5 лет назад

Man the animations completely distracted me from the content... good job on the information but I think it would of turned out so much better in person.

@sam3d 5 лет назад

why do you call this a meditation?

@PhilosophyVibe 5 лет назад

We do not call it a meditation this is how Descartes referred to it. A common definition of a meditation is “the act of thinking about something very carefully and deeply for a long time.” This is exactly what Descartes has done. He has thought long and hard about every aspect of his reality.