Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, meditations 1-2 - Introduction to Philosophy

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In this session from my Fall 2011 Introduction to Philosophy class at Marist College, we begin our foray into Descartes' philosophy by examining Meditations 1 and 2. We discuss the reliability of the senses, hyperbolic doubt, the "evil demon" hypothesis, the Cogito and Descartes' views on thinking and extended substances
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@KnowledgeVariable 7 лет назад

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@GregoryBSadler 7 лет назад

Thanks! Glad you enjoy the classes

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Glad to rent the space in your head for a while

@lindokuhleemmanuel2031 7 лет назад

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@GregoryBSadler 7 лет назад

Glad to read it - you're very welcome!

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Yep -- and so much more. Descartes is always a fun thinker to teach

@FMasamune 11 лет назад

I seriously love your teaching style. You aren't intimidating like most professors and you help your students make connections between the topic being discussed and their lives. I learn a lot more from these videos then sitting in on a lecture at my university. Keep up the good work!

@NapoleonDynamite69 6 лет назад

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@GregoryBSadler 6 лет назад

Thanks!

@socceresque16 8 лет назад

I haven't reached the end of this series but... I sincerely hope the students opened up a bit more. Exchange of ideas across a classroom is always enjoyable from a teaching standpoint.

@GregoryBSadler 8 лет назад

+Heather Correll Yes, it is. It's tough with some of these freshman students "right off the bus", when their K-12 education hasn't emphasized not only discussion, but serious, sustained discussion. . .

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

You're very welcome -- glad that the videos were helpful

@urbansamurai79 11 лет назад

Total Recall is another film that absolutely captures the notion of being deceived through implanted memories. I've just started getting into philosophy, so this lecture was helpful. Thanks for posting!

@wakalaprego 10 лет назад

your videos will get me through my intro to Philosophy. SO grateful!

@Txfpf4all 10 лет назад

This video has help me with this course! Thanks Mr. Sadler!!

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

Glad it was useful for you

@danellebreo 11 лет назад

You sir are a great great great teacher, your analogies makes it so easy to relate, and understand the material.

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

You're welcome. Good luck with the exam

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

I haven't seen that one -- will have to give it a watch. Thanks!

@4BobMarley20 11 лет назад

Thanks so much for posting your lectures, your an amazing prof. You've helped me through a lot of my philosophy classes!

@csidorf 11 лет назад

Thank you very much for sharing Dr. Sadler :)

@christiannarvaes7857 7 лет назад

Found out about your channel recently and Im really enjoying everything! Thanks for going through all the strain to put this online! Greeting from Curitiba - Brazil.

@GregoryBSadler 7 лет назад

You're very welcome!

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

You're welcome! Glad to hear they're helpful

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Not a problem -- and that's a good question for me to address in one of my upcoming Dr. Sadler Chalk and Talk videos. I'm hoping to shoot that one later this week

@MrAngryman69 11 лет назад

I like how this Prof. put these videos up so that we can have crash courses to philosophy! :-D

@ColeHomeVideo 10 лет назад

Currently studying Philosophy in Scotland. Your lectures are EXTREMELY helpful.

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

Glad you're finding it useful!

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Well, thanks for the compliment -- I wouldn't call them a bad class, though, so I do have to stick up for my students a bit . These are kids right out of high school, first semester in college, no real clue about how to get much out of their classes by discussion. And, Descartes is tough stuff for them.

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Glad the lecture videos were helpful for you

@FireTex1 12 лет назад

I agree with you on the 2and and 3rd. My kids felt the same. I am reading a biogrophy on Descartes. He was different in his thinking, but the times were different as well. He saw what what happened to Galileo. I think that would make anyone act a bit different. All of these things are fascinating.I am older now and I really love to learn. I have more time to devout to reading and listening to things like your lectures. Thank you

@GankNoobsEveryday 11 лет назад

Interesting Lecture. I enjoyed it.

@browneyedS 9 лет назад

Oh god.. i hope i can have a teacher like him he knows how to pull the students attention and keep them away from falling asleep and he is really fun to learn with

@GregoryBSadler 9 лет назад

Well. . . there's not as many good teachers in Philosophy as one might hope -- I'd say talk with fellow students whose opinions you respect, and ask them who they think are good profs to take classes with.

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Well, that can work, provided there aren't too many students in the class. Another thing to keep in mind: many of these students, when they first come to my class, have been given years of "be quiet and let the teacher tell you the answers". As to Descartes and videos, I'm planning down the line on doing a whole set of videos, going through each Meditation, and each of the objections and replies -- but that would be later this summer or this fall

@CaptainJasa 10 лет назад

A nice intro lecture on Descartes. I find Rene Descartes works to be quite accessible and easy to follow and that's what he had in mind when he wrote that he wanted his readers to read his work like a novel from start to finish. In a way he also the first existentialist philosopher as well in dealing with the whole topic of existence.

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

Glad you enjoyed the lecture. I wouldn't call him the "first existentialist". Oftentimes, if one is reading existentialism back into history, it's his contemporary, Pascal, who is construed as an proto-existentialist. And, Descartes was far from the first person to thematically examine existence -- for one, Thomas Aquinas focused on that (in terms of the distinction between essence and existence)

@shint8160 3 года назад

Hearing one of the students cough so violently and remembering that this is in 2011 is funny to me. Thanks for the upload!

@GregoryBSadler 3 года назад

Yes, they're probably well along in their career now

@farhanpatel715 12 лет назад

Thanks saved my life this video... i got an exam tomorrow and this is great help :D

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Thanks! Glad they are helpful

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Yes, I've had the experience on both sides of teaching-learning. I still remember some of my high school teachers for lessons I learned from them. And, I've had students come to me years later and say "you know when you said. .. . that had this effect on me" -- usually a big surprise on my part

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Well, that one I've used in Intro classes, but more when we get to material on Locke, Berkeley, Hume, dealing with memory and personal identity.

@bobbyonair1843 11 лет назад

Thank you for Sharing this.

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Glad you like them. I don't think you can get much mileage out of etymology when it comes to developing a theory of human nature as such. Again, if we're talking Descartes, he thought the human being is not simply confined to the three spatial dimensions

@davehickey2798 11 лет назад

Great lecture!

@Lucky9_9 12 лет назад

I watched this wonderful lecture last night and it's been swimming around my head all morning. Coincidentally, I just stumbled into the song Lamps and Palm Trees by Sleeping til Summer. This just might be your alarm? Classic.

@Brakermaker21 11 лет назад

You're like a super-chill cross between Jeff Bridges and John Goodman, love the lecture.

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Thanks -- and I'll keep on shooting and posting them. It probably helps having taught non-philosophy majors in the majority of my classes for most of my career -- you learn that you have to make those connections, if your students are to get anything out of the classes

@skyace47053 11 лет назад

Thank you so much you were very helpful, your a very good professor, I was hating my philosophy class did not understand what the hell was going on, you changed my views on this subject in a positive way.

@puertoriconnect4611 8 лет назад

This teacher's pretty awesome. I wish I could be in this class. Like, most commenters here, I do wish the students were more engaged. It sounds like there's only 2 who actually participate. To be fair to them, I've been in classes before where my mind just goes blank any time the teacher asks a question, or I'm afraid of saying something stupid, or I don't wanna speak for the whole class. All that aside this teacher is great at making these ideas feel more personal.

@GregoryBSadler 8 лет назад

+Absurdi TV Thanks!

@M0rissey 11 лет назад

Big thank you from me in New Zealand! I have my final exam next week so I'm listening to any and all extra explanations I can find about the topics. Your lecture was awesome, I would have loved to be in your class! :)

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

Glad it was helpful for you

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

No worries -- and it's quite all right to call them what you like, to express the impression you get about them. And, it's equally all right for me to stick up for them. It doesn't seem particularly harsh given the sorts of things I see in plenty of other RU-vid comments, trust me! I have to admit to a bit of disappointment on my own part when I can't get students interested and engaged. The older I get, and the longer I teach, though, the less it gets to me.

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Great! Good subject to minor in -- it complements just about any other field that you're studying. What you find, actually, is that, with any discipline you might major in, as you start to get into higher level discussions of the subject, you end up doing more and more philosophy, like it or not

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

You're very welcome!

@0lAllan 12 лет назад

Good show man.

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Not yet. I'll be recording two on Hume's Dialogues on Natural Religion later this semester, though

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Thanks! Nice to read that

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Well, it's pretty introductory stuff -- for an intro course entirely for Freshmen. So, it might not have the more advanced stuff you'd like. I'll eventually be producing some more intermediate and advanced videos on Descartes (and other moderns), but right now, those are just in the planning stage

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Yep. If you watch my videos, you'll hear me many times admit to my students that I have trouble spelling certain words. Occasionally, I even get them wrong.

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

You're welcome!

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Glad you liked it -- yes, classes are luck of the draw. Sometimes, you get a batch of very engaged students, sometimes not so much

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Yep, like the title says, it's Intro to Philosophy -- not a class on Descartes or even the Early Moderns (I should be so lucky!) -- and they are indeed first semester Freshmen, not straight off the bus, since it's mid-semester, but certainly not seasoned yet!

@yasha12isreal 8 лет назад

thanks for the videos professor

@GregoryBSadler 8 лет назад

+Tyler Earls You're welcome!

@arajo0423 11 лет назад

That's great! My senior paper should be done by next Spring, so I have already been reading them, trying to figure out as much as I can. It would be really great to see your new videos on objections and replies!!! Thanks!!!!!

@fiachtoibin2870 10 лет назад

Brilliant video so usefull

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Thanks!

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

If you like these -- from some time back -- I've got more recent ones in some of the other playlists

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

You're very welcome

@urbansamurai79 11 лет назад

Philosophy is one of the few areas that encourages the challenging of established ideas, which is totally backwards from standard education and what I find most appealing. Too many people are programmed with loads of information but really struggle to think critically.

@wisco_simple 3 года назад

Thanks for another great lecture on our philosopher of the month

@GregoryBSadler 3 года назад

You're welcome - but whose philosopher of the month?

@wisco_simple 3 года назад

@@GregoryBSadler Descartes this month

@wisco_simple 3 года назад

@@GregoryBSadler I'm trying to teach a group of my friends to think by introducing them to a new philosopher every month

@GregoryBSadler 3 года назад

Wisco Simple well that’s cool!

@wisco_simple 3 года назад

@@GregoryBSadler thank you Dr. Sadler

@timmmyyb 10 лет назад

What a great video. I hope you've seen Inception by now!

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

I seem to get that quite a bit -- but I certainly don't mind, because it's not a bad association.

@arajo0423 11 лет назад

I personally always try to answer the questions my professors ask. I think it creates a good atmosphere for a class to be less dense :) My senior paper is about Descartes' the proof of God and your lectures have been a big help.. I have been reading 'the philosophical writing of Descartes Volume 2'.. I am pretty much comfortable with his thought but now I am struggling with the objections and the replies.. I wish you had a video about that too!! haha

@hassanb.5585 11 лет назад

I was hoping that you would talk about The Vanilla Sky in more details, which is pretty related to the subject you had been discussing. You're appreciated!

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

About 3:18, you mean? Perhaps. I shot this two years ago, so I'm not sure precisely which term I'd had in mind at the time

@thinkbigg1 12 лет назад

Lol...I like how he picks up his cup of coffee but never takes a drink out of it. Great lecture though...really helpful

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

that sounds like something you could research. Try starting with the Discourse

@veromarlon 10 лет назад

Thank you from El Salvador

@0lAllan 12 лет назад

I'm taking Continental Rationalism in the fall. I hope this makes for a useful preview of Descartes.

@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 7 лет назад

In regards to the students, I am reminded that "Great learning does not make a person wise, or else it would have taught Hesiod, who did not even know that day and night are the same thing."

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Yep, that happens sometimes

@mitchlavender6391 10 лет назад

Great lecture... But frustrating how little the class participates...

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

Some days are like that. . .

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Perhaps down the line, I'll do a series on Philosophy as it shows up in movies

@FireTex1 12 лет назад

The children step through the closet into what is very much a paralell universe. I thought the first movie was excellent and listening to your lecture, which I really enjoy, the first thing that came to my mind was this movie. Thanks

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

You're welcome

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Well, you work with what you've got

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Well, Descartes was already "different" well before the Galileo matter -- brilliant guy, and very ambitious to set philosophy upon an entirely new basis

@jmosur 11 лет назад

Great lecture! Is your class really early in the morning or are you teaching a group of mutes?

@LadyRara90sKid 12 лет назад

Such an unresponsive class! Great help for my revision on Descartes though.

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Quite true

@StormwaterIsOneWord 10 лет назад

Your videos are very helpful, it is much appreciated! More on the subject of the video, the only thing that I can think of that is totally for certain is that we are having an experience. Whether the experience is true or false is irrelevant because either way we are still having an experience. Or rather it could be said that we are observing or making observations. =]

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

That's a conclusion some people have drawn. Descartes will go much further, even in Meditation 2 -- one can know for certain that one is a thinking substance. . . .

@stevosvideos1351 10 лет назад

I enjoyed and benefited from your lecture. Thanks. When I have a dream I might think the dream experience is real while I'm dreaming, but after I wake up I realise that it was only a dream. In my woken state, I know that I am not dreaming (as in having literally the exact same kind of dream at night when I am in bed asleep). While I'm awake I can question whether I am dreaming or whether I'm awake, but I seem to know I am not asleep in bed an dreaming in the exact literal way I was last night (for example). So there is a difference in my perceptual experience between my dream state and my woken state - although this perceptual distinction is generally more available to me while I'm awake than when I'm asleep and dreaming. (Although with the likes of lucid dreaming the level of awareness seems to be raised while still dreaming.) However, it is still possible that the reality I experience in my woken state may actually be some other type of dream state/virtual reality world that differs literally somewhat from my 'in bed asleep and dreaming' but is somewhat comparable. P.S. Gregory - another movie is Vanilla Sky. Have you seen it. It's several years old now, and was a bit of a flop, but I actually really liked it. That too was about a virtual reality computer program thing.

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

Yes, I saw Vanilla Sky some time ago. Not bad at all. . . Glad you enjoyed the video

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Not sure what you mean. Can you explain in a bit more detail what you're asking about -- and whether your asking about my views or Descartes' views?

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

Well, perhaps more unresponsive in these Descartes (also the Kant) videos than some of the other thinkers we studied that semester. Glad the video was helpful!

@0lAllan 12 лет назад

Yeah, good stuff, lol. I’ve really taken a shining to philosophy; my 'philos' of the subject is such that I declared it as my minor. To me there is no academic discipline more intriguing or enlightening. I thank you for posting these, I'll be watching. :)

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Yep. Movies apparently don't remain in the public mind too long

@MaupoNaio 11 лет назад

So, what do you think about the whole "Third Dimensionality" of society ? Is it only on paper ?

@kitty16226 12 лет назад

Thanks.

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Well, I'll take the compliment. . .

@stevemcqueen3349 11 лет назад

Any lectures on David Hume?

@innoccentBitch 9 лет назад

You are truly awesome :) ...that what i like about your lectures even a layman would understand such in-dept philosophy...thanks :)

@RealNRD 10 лет назад

Was "prestidigitation" the word the lecturer was searching for around the 13 minute mark?

@Mike82ARP 10 лет назад

@2:00. Was the word prestidigitation?

@GregoryBSadler 10 лет назад

Thanks! Unfortunately, no -- though it's in my queue

@GregoryBSadler 12 лет назад

How so?

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Well, that class was a year and a half ago, 5 PM

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

Now, that is something I like to read: 1) Your class/prof isn't helping you understand -- I don't like that 2) My videos do help -- I like that 3) You now are more interested in studying philosophy -- that's what I really like

@GregoryBSadler 11 лет назад

I get that quite a bit