Philosophy Everyday

What Descartes Really Meant by “I Think, Therefore I Am”


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Nothing can be trusted to be real, or at least, that’s the starting point. In this episode, I break down René Descartes’ method of radical doubt by walking through the First and Second Meditations, step by step. What happens if you treat everything that can be doubted as false? That includes; your senses, your body, the external world, and even mathematics.


Source of Discussion: Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes, 1641.

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Philosophy EverydayBy Masud Gaziyev