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Descartes: An Introduction

Read by Jonathan Oliver, with Roy McMillan

Descartes: An Introduction

Descartes: An Introduction

Read by Jonathan Oliver, with Roy McMillan

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René Descartes is one of the formative figures in Western philosophy, logic and mathematics. His famous statement: ‘I think, therefore I am’, has become perhaps the most famous phrase in all of philosophy. Descartes’s ground-breaking writings attempted to establish unshakeable foundations of knowledge, and set a trend for subsequent Western philosophy, which has endlessly critiqued and expanded upon his ideas.

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Ross Burman: Descartes: An Introduction
Work length5:11:48
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Rene Descartes has often been described…
Track length6:01
Descartes left the army and returned to Paris…
Track length5:55
Introduction to Discourse on the Method
Track length4:08
Discourse on the Method
Track length6:09
'I esteemed eloquence highly.'
Track length6:25
'It is true, however, that it is not customary…'
Track length5:18
'But the chief ground of my satisfaction with this method…'
Track length5:17
'Having thus provided myself with these maxims…'
Track length5:55
'After this, I inquired in general…'
Track length8:35
Introduction to Meditations on the First Philosophy
Track length1:39
Meditation I - Of the Things which We May Doubt
Track length5:46
'Let us suppose, then, that we are dreaming…'
Track length3:23
'Nevertheless, the belief that there is a God…'
Track length7:19
Introduction to Meditation II
Track length1:52
Meditation II – Of the Nature of the Human Mind
Track length5:23
'What then did I formerly think I was?'
Track length4:49
'The question now arises, am I aught besides?'
Track length5:38
'From this I begin to know what I am…'
Track length6:26
'But meanwhile, I feel greatly astonished…'
Track length6:31
Introduction to Meditation III
Track length1:42
Meditation III – Of God: That He Exists
Track length3:58
'But when I considered any matter in arithmetic…'
Track length6:04
'What I have here principally to do…'
Track length5:55
'Now it is manifest by the natural light…'
Track length5:30
'But among these my ideas…'
Track length5:44
'There only remains, therefore, the idea of God…'
Track length5:03
'Yet, on looking more closely into the matter…'
Track length5:33
'All that is here required therefore…'
Track length4:42
'There remains only the inquiry as to the way…'
Track length4:13
Introduction to Meditation IV
Track length1:12
Meditation IV – Of Truth and Error
Track length2:45
'And there would remain no doubt on this head…'
Track length3:31
'Considering this more attentively…'
Track length7:28
'From all this I discover, however…'
Track length5:29
'And finally, I ought not also to complain…'
Track length5:18
Introduction to Meditation V
Track length1:45
Meditation V – Of Material Things
Track length4:59
'But now, if because I can draw from my thought…'
Track length6:54
'But indeed, whatever mode of probation I in the end adopt…'
Track length6:19
Introduction to Meditation VI
Track length1:27
Meditation VI – Of the Existence of Material Things
Track length5:06
'But I am accustomed to imagine many other objects…'
Track length5:49
'But afterward, a wide experience by degrees…'
Track length4:23
'Moreover, I find in myself diverse faculties of thinking…'
Track length6:27
'Besides this, nature teaches me that my own body…'
Track length5:04
'But I have already sufficiently considered how it happens…'
Track length4:42
'To commence this examination accordingly…'
Track length6:25
'Whence it is quite manifest…'
Track length4:58
Introduction to Principles of Philosophy
Track length2:50
Principles of Philosophy (Selections)
Track length0:55
Why we may doubt of sensible things.
Track length0:59
Why we may also doubt of mathematical demonstrations.
Track length1:22
That we possess a free will.
Track length0:36
That we cannot doubt of our existence…
Track length1:02
That we hence discover the distinction…
Track length0:59
How we can know our mind more clearly than our body.
Track length1:42
How it happens that every one does not come…
Track length0:55
In what sense the knowledge of other things…
Track length2:01
That we may validly infer the existence of God…
Track length1:17
That necessary existence is not in the same way comprised…
Track length0:45
That we are not the cause of ourselves…
Track length1:15
That God is not corporeal…
Track length1:32
That in passing from the knowledge of God…
Track length1:03
That we must believe all that God has revealed…
Track length0:40
That we must examine…
Track length1:03
That God is not the cause of our errors.
Track length0:46
That, consequently, all which we clearly perceive…
Track length1:44
That our errors are, in respect of God…
Track length0:50
That there are only two modes of thinking in us…
Track length0:50
That we never err, unless…
Track length0:39
That the will, as well as the understanding…
Track length0:43
That the will is of greater extension…
Track length0:47
That our errors cannot be imputed to God.
Track length0:27
That the chief perfection of man…
Track length1:09
That the liberty of our will is self-evident.
Track length0:55
That it is likewise certain that God…
Track length0:36
How the freedom of our will may be reconciled…
Track length1:13
How, although we never will to err…
Track length1:09
That we shall never err…
Track length0:52
What constitutes clear and distinct perception.
Track length0:57
It is shown from the example of pain…
Track length0:49
That to correct the prejudices of our early years…
Track length0:55
What substance is…
Track length0:49
That the term 'substance'…
Track length1:05
That of every substance there is one principal attribute…
Track length1:31
How we may have clear and distinct notions…
Track length1:12
The grounds on which the existence of material things…
Track length2:30
How we likewise know that the human body…
Track length0:47
That the perceptions of the senses…
Track length0:55
That the nature of body…
Track length1:29
That the truth regarding the nature of body…
Track length1:05
How thought and extension may be distinctly known…
Track length1:13
How these may be likewise distinctly conceived…
Track length1:16
What are modes…
Track length1:11
How our sensations, affections…
Track length1:16
That we are frequently deceived in our judgements…
Track length1:03
How in these things…
Track length1:29
That magnitude, figure and so on…
Track length1:03
That we may judge of sensible things…
Track length1:56
That the chief cause of our errors…
Track length3:54
That the second cause of our errors…
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The third cause is…
Track length1:47
The fourth source of our errors is…
Track length1:23
Summary of what must be observed…
Track length2:15
That we ought to prefer the Divine authority…
Track length1:06
That, however, I submit all my opinions…
Track length1:19
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