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Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Faith in Human Reason

This is definitely a text where we can just start with Rule 1 and kind of move forward until we run out of time. They're only 20 some and the last couple are like this is a text he never actually finished. It's not just that there's a reason I thought of Wittgenstein when I read this, but it's also an articulation of the highest aspirations of the Enlightenment. Descartes has this idea of clarity and distinctness in our conceptions.

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