Six Metaphysical Meditations by Rene Descartes audiobook.
Genre: philosophy
In Six Metaphysical Meditations, Rene Descartes invites the listener into a rigorous, first-person investigation of what can be known with certainty. Through a sequence of six meditations, he stages an intellectual reset: setting aside inherited opinions and even the testimony of the senses, he searches for a foundation strong enough to support science, morality, and everyday belief. Along the way, Descartes confronts the unsettling possibility of radical deception and asks how a mind can distinguish truth from error. From that crisis, he develops a method of careful attention to ideas, examining which are clear, distinct, and trustworthy, and which arise from confusion or habit. He then turns to the nature of the self, the relationship between thinking and being, the possibility of a perfect divine source, and the status of the physical world we seem to inhabit. Written as a spiritual-like exercise as much as a philosophical argument, these meditations unfold with tense suspense: each step forward depends on defeating a deeper doubt. The result is a landmark exploration of certainty, consciousness, and the limits of human knowledge that continues to shape modern philosophy.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:11:14) Chapter 02
(00:32:50) Chapter 03
(01:11:58) Chapter 04
(01:32:17) Chapter 05
(01:48:59) Chapter 06
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