Rene Descartes, Meditation 2 | The Cogito and Thinking Being | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Rene Descartes' work, The Meditations, specifically on meditation 2 and on his discussion of the famous "Cogito" (a formula that doesn't actually appear in the Meditations), or speaking more broadly, the conception of human being as a thinking substance. This includes a variety of modes of thought, including reasoning, doubting, affirming and denying in judgements, willing and willing-against, remembering, imagining, sense-perception, and feeling emotions
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you're the philosophy goat, wish my professor was, you're getting me through!!
"Thinking" in the original Cartesian sense also includes imagining and even sensing. This part is really interesting.
Thank you so much!! You are so helpful
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Thanks a lot. You save me this time. Descartes's meditations are so difficult for me to understand.
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I can see why Descartes mentions the Cogito after extending doubt in all directions. However, thinking categorically implies a subject and object. I cannot agree that just merely being a subject without a bonafide object is 'actual'--the minimum wage of being. Descartes is a curious foil from Hegel who suggests that self-reflection creates negation and not something certain. I am glad, though, that Descartes does not immediately start warring with people after becoming self conscious... or mabye that evil demon is just a projection of the other subjects in his world that cause him anxiety.
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