Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his third meditation. This episode discusses the distinction he makes - absolutely central to the argument for God's existence that follows between what he calls "objective" and "formal" reality.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his third meditation. This episode discusses an important distinction he makes in his work between three different types of ideas - innate, adventitious, and produced.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his second meditation. This episode discusses one of the most important criteria for knowledge Descartes uses in his works, that of "clear and distinct ideas".

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his second meditation. This discusses the famous "piece of wax" example and thought experiment that he uses to illustrate the nature of extended substance, and the relation between a thing and its properties.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his second meditation. One of Descartes' most famous philosophical concepts is that of the "Cogito", "I think". This lecture explores the modes of thinking that Descartes discusses, and the relation between thinking and existence for the knowing subject.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his first meditation. It examines one of the most famous ideas from that work, the notion of a "evil genius" or "evil demon" (malin genie)who is incredibly powerful, and who devotes all of its resources to deceiving Descartes about the existence of an external world, everything he learns through the senses, and his possession of a body.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his first meditation. It examines his consideration of the possibility that there is no God, the possible other causes for how things are, and the implications for the possibility of attaining certain knowledge.

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his first meditation. It examines his deepening of methodological doubt by extending it beyond the senses to calling mathematics and geometry (and all other modes of knowledge based on them) into doubt

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This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Meditations on First Philosophy, and focuses on his first meditation. It examines his discussion of what we can call into doubt. Descartes holds that anything that comes to us through the senses can be doubted, as can the fact that we are currently awakes and not dreaming.

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This lecture discusses the 20th century poet, novelist, and philosopher, Rainer Maria Rilke's work Letters to a Young Poet, and examines in particular his discussion of the need for time and patience for growth of a human being. The most important and essential things cannot be forced and don't take place on a time-table

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