Rene Descartes, Meditation 1 | God, Causes, and Certainty | 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.
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You blew my mind with your reading of Descartes' argument of imperfection, especially when you made the connection to Nietzsche. For some reason I did not expect this from Descartes. I have to go back and read the "Meditations". It's been a few years.
It’s a very cool text for that sort of stuff
Hey Gregory I love your vids and i've been watching them for sometime and I wanted to know what is the best way into getting started into philosophy? Sadly there are no philosophy classes in high school so I have only relied on books and videos to help me get a better grasp and understanding. I have been reading Plato's book "Republic" and Aristotle "Introductory reading" and I have been reading a lot on the history of philosophy and many great philosophers.
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Well. I don't think it was merely 'par hazard' you are producing great video. As a Descartes sceptic, myself, you are certainly raising material which interpenetrates substantive questions on the grounds for being that in Descarte's stance I would otherwise consign to oblivion.
Descartes is one of those thinkers - like Hume or Kant or Bentham - whose systematic perspective I find fascinating, even though I don't agree with it
HI Gregory, out of topic question, but I would like to ask you if the best way to grasp and understand philosophy as whole is to start with a history of philosophy book like the one from Bertrand Russell or Anthony Kenny (you have any favorite?), i am not satisfied with what I learned in highschool, I'm a med student, until now I was doing a bunch of selective readings like being and time, Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Seneca's letters, and even though I was rewarded from it, I fear that maybe I am missing the bigger picture (if such a thing exists) because I was digging into pre-socratic philosophy and found it pretty enlightening and the source of a lot of concerns (in highschool I thought they were overcome hahah). I saw a university course bibliography also, and it's an option, but I don't think I have the time for all of it.
Also, Neurology is my field of interest, so some parts of philosophy are really important for me because the universities don't teach it very well, do you have any take on their relationship? They created "Neurophilosophy" now, and some authors like Antonio Damásio tackle with lot's of issues, you probably heard of his book called "Descarte's error".
Copleston is a far better history of philosophy than Russell. I don't spend much time with secondary texts, so I'm not particularly good in giving recommendations. Any summary, you're getting just that - a summary, which might be correct or might not.
As for the "Neuro-" angle, I think Neurology is an actual science. Much of the "neuro-" this and that out there in the present, when you start looking at it closely, turns out to be rather finespun bullshit, with occasional useful insights. I've heard of Damasio, and his book, but haven't looked at either. Much of that sort of stuff tends to be rather weak on engagement with the actual philosophy, but who knows - he could be good.
@@GregoryBSadler Thank you for the recommendation, I don't like summaries very much also, but I will check this Copleston book. And yes, it's like the subjects are falling apart and people create these lanky categories everywhere. Also, you're right, his book is more trying to conciliate/integrate Neuroscience into Descarte's dualism, but doesn't poke the philosophy per se.