Descartes's Soul | Prof. Jorge Secada
The Thomistic Institute
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The Relationship Between Descartes and the Scholastics
Professor Saccata says Descartes would have come down on the idea that he can't demonstrate it. He is responding perhaps to all the, all the, there had been some famous books denying the immortality of soul. But no, I think it's part of the, of his platonic, meditational conception of philosophy and metaphysics. The prosologium is overtly about God, but it's also about myself and about self-knowledge. Where have I come from? Where am I going to go to? And then if you do not focus on the argument, but on the whole book, remember the arguments at the beginning, there's 23 other chapters,. Then you see how
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