
Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Methodological Doubt of Descartes
He uses this methodological doubt really to found science and to get back all the things he believed in the first place, but with a different epistemological theory of knowledge importance. Whereas before we might have thought that the phys aobjects are the most obvious, indubitable things, now he thinks that my sense of myself is more indubitable. And then i feel like mark, we need to have kind of a sum up. If we are od, you knowfor i don't think we need to end quite yet, because i think we should say a little about some of the major things that descartes comes away with.
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