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Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Isism, Unity Over Time

E: I think what's interesting, there is a kind of throw away comment in the sixth section of the second meditation. And to talk about this unity over time that you guys were just mentioning, he's sort of opening up the idea that i can't even be sure how often i am unified overtime. E: One of the points he wants to make is that there is no distinction between thinking that you have that unity and having it. To be deceived about having that unity is to have the unity that does.

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