Rene Descartes and Princess Elisabeth, Correspondence - Introduction to Philosophy

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In this lecture/discussion section from my Fall 2013 Introduction to Philosophy class at Marist College, we explore some of the correspondence between Rene Descartes and Princess Elisabeth. In particular, we look at their back and forth discussion about the nature of the soul or the mind, and about how the mind is united with the body. We also examine some of their discussion about what happiness, the supreme good, and the final end are, and about how a life guided by reason stands the best chance for attaining these. One of the other issues -- getting ready for our excursus into Descartes' work, The Passions of the Soul -- is determining just what passions are and how they can lead us astray in our evaluations and choices
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@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

new course video from Intro to Philosophy, gearing up for Descartes' Passions of the Soul later this week

@MissTimBurtonFan 10 лет назад

Amazing lecture! You're a great teacher - I wish all teachers were this great at their job! Thanks for sharing :)

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

Thanks! Very nice to hear!

@panzerKO 8 лет назад

Thank you very much for the lecture, Mr. Sadler. Your rather informal and incisive didactic method (or the lack of) and delivery remind me very much of one of the finest professors at University of São Paulo, USP - ECA, Clóvis de Barros Filho. If you ever feel like improving your Portuguese, on youtube there is a huge amount of Mr. Clovis de Barros' recorded lectures, classes and etc

@GregoryBSadler 8 лет назад

Hahaha! I'd have to improve the very little Portuguese I know considerably to benefit at all from watching him. But, I appreciate the recommendation!

@SuperFabiola12345 8 лет назад

Thanks for the video professor!

@GregoryBSadler 8 лет назад

+Fabiola Ortiz You're welcome!

@cristinatheestallion 2 года назад

Thank you so much for the lecture!! Really helpful 😊 Notes: 15:00

@GregoryBSadler 2 года назад

Glad you found it helpful!

@ibrahimalrashed4035 10 лет назад

Firstly I really want to thank you for uploading this video and allowing us to benefit from you. I hope that I am not bothering you by asking you to clarify one point to me. The point is that, you said the body could affect the mind in some ways the first is that when we feel tired it is hard to focus in the lecture and the second way which I have difficulties to understand is that you said the body could affect the mind in another way too, like how do you know I am here in this class? That you could know by touching me and see if you feel my existence or your hand will just go through me, which means I am not here; therefore, you do not exists. My question here is that these perceptions come from our mind and is not the mind doing all the work here not that the body affecting the mind but the mind affecting itself in some ways, as if there is no mind there will be no perceptions that will result in having absence of certainty about your existence in the class? many thanks Ibrahim

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

Here's Descartes' view: perceptions occur in the mind. They may come from the mind on some cases, or come from (i.e. be caused by what is occurring with) the body. "If there is no mind" -- that's never going to be an issue, right, since if there's any matter to be resolved, there's a mind for which that is a matter to be resolved

@ibrahimalrashed4035 10 лет назад

Gregory B. Sadler thank you, you could't have been more helpful

@jaybk718 4 года назад

Steven Seagal out here teaching philosophy. Lol. Thanks, professor this helped immensely

@GregoryBSadler 4 года назад

Lol, as the kids say

@Atavist89 10 лет назад

About your point about wanting yourself to be happy: Isn't it true that if you fake-laugh for long enough, you'll start laughing for real? So can't our body in some sense act on our mind?

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

Sure, the body acts on the mind -- Descartes says explicitly that it does, as do I and some of my students in the video. Notice that in this case, this is the mind acting on itself through willing bodily actions, which then have an effect (after a while) on the mind