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Meditations on First Philosophy

Hosted by René Descartes · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 9 episodes

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After years of laboring on a treatise that laid the groundwork for his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes found himself compelled to set the project aside when his contemporary, Galileo, faced charges of heresy. This unfinished work, titled The World, was ultimately published only after Descartes’ passing. It appears that this turbulent context influenced Descartes as he penned his more renowned philosophical writings. This influence is particularly evident in the Meditations, where not only the subservience of the Letter of Dedication is apparent, but also in the distinctive argumentative style. Descartes seeks to establish a mathematical science that prioritizes mathematical demonstration over common-sense judgments grounded in everyday experience. His posthumous Copernican ideas, expressed in The World, demanded such a robust defense. The Meditations stand as a pivotal text in early modern philosophy, shaping fundamental perspectives and challenges within the Western trad

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René Descartes hosts Meditations on First Philosophy, a society show with 9 episodes published.

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009 - Meditation VI Of the Existence of Material Things And of the Real Distinction Between the Mind and B

Feb 9, 202642m0

After years of laboring on a treatise that laid the groundwork for his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes found himself compelled to set the project aside when his contemporary, Galileo, faced charges of heres

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008 - Meditation V Of the Essence of Material Things And Again Of God That He Exists

Feb 9, 202618m0

After years of laboring on a treatise that laid the groundwork for his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes found himself compelled to set the project aside when his contemporary, Galileo, faced charges of heres

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007 - Meditation IV Of Truth and Error

Feb 9, 202623m0

After years of laboring on a treatise that laid the groundwork for his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes found himself compelled to set the project aside when his contemporary, Galileo, faced charges of heres

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006 - Meditation III Of God That He Exists

Feb 9, 202647m0

After years of laboring on a treatise that laid the groundwork for his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes found himself compelled to set the project aside when his contemporary, Galileo, faced charges of heres

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005 - Meditation II Of the Nature of the Human Mind And that it is More Easily Known than the Body

Feb 9, 202628m0

After years of laboring on a treatise that laid the groundwork for his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes found himself compelled to set the project aside when his contemporary, Galileo, faced charges of heres

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004 - Meditation I Of the Things of which We may Doubt

Feb 9, 202616m0

After years of laboring on a treatise that laid the groundwork for his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes found himself compelled to set the project aside when his contemporary, Galileo, faced charges of heres

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003 - Synopsis of the Six Following Meditations

Feb 9, 202611m0

After years of laboring on a treatise that laid the groundwork for his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes found himself compelled to set the project aside when his contemporary, Galileo, faced charges of heres

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002 - Preface to the Reader

Feb 9, 20268m0

After years of laboring on a treatise that laid the groundwork for his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes found himself compelled to set the project aside when his contemporary, Galileo, faced charges of heres

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001 - Letter of Dedication

Feb 9, 202612m0

After years of laboring on a treatise that laid the groundwork for his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes found himself compelled to set the project aside when his contemporary, Galileo, faced charges of heres

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Meditations on First Philosophy is hosted by René Descartes. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 9 episodes.

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Meditations on First Philosophy has published 9 episodes.

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