Descartes Flashcards
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Rene Descartes
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- 1596 in France
- sceptic, rationalist
- father of modern philosophy
2
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cogito ergo sum
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I think therefore I am
3
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method of doubts
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breaking down big problems into small sections and it’s foundations to question it
4
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knowledge
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that which is indubitable
5
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doubt of thought
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content of thought can be doubted but the process of thought cant
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demon
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to help him doubt all his knowledge, he imagined a demon had deceived him and told him everything he knows
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how can empiricism be doubted?
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- we could be asleep right now
- we can’t trust our senses or interpretations of them
8
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the body
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physical and can be doubted
9
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soul/mind
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indubitable and most important part of humans
10
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findings of meditation 1
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- discard all that is dubitable
- gods existence is more likely than not
- our minds/soul are indubitable
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findings of mediation 2
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- we are thinking, so we must exist
- Archimedean point
- body is dubitable
12
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interactionism
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2 different substances interact to cause what feels like 1 experience (pineal gland in the brain)
