Name: PHILOSOPHY - 歴史。デカルトのコギト論争 [HD] (PHILOSOPHY - History: Descartes' Cogito Argument [HD])
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I'm teaching at the Humboldt
University in Berlin in Germany,

"cogito argument" before, or of Descartes,

you might have encountered
the argument itself.

It is nothing other than the
famous philosophical insight

that it has even become
the subject of jokes.

Now, I admit that this
joke is probably not

the best joke ever, but
Descartes's cogito argument,

to which this joke appeals,
is definitely pretty cool.

The most exciting feature of
Descartes's cogito argument

It is rather the philosophical
question that Descartes

And what is this question
that the cogito argument

Rene Descartes was a French
philosopher of the seventeenth century.

He was dissatisfied with
the philosophy of his time,

which was dominated by
scholastic philosophy.

The scholastics saw to
answer highly abstract

philosophical questions
mainly on the basis

Descartes was dissatisfied
with this kind of philosophy

because he considered their
highly abstract disputes

pointless and futile, and
also unable to accommodate

the results of the rising
mechanistic physics,

which sought to account
for natural phenomena

On account of his dissatisfaction
with the philosophy of his day,

that the philosophy was in
need of a fundamental reboot,

but how do you build a
new philosophical system?

Well, maybe it's just in
a way we usually build

new and stable things, such
as houses and monuments:

just by building them up on a
strong and stable foundation.

Yet, what would serve as an
appropriate firm foundation

upon which to build a
new philosophical theory?

Descartes was convinced that
nothing could do the job

that is, the things that we
can really be sure are true.

Let us now finally turn
to Descartes's attempt

to establish a firm foundation
for his new philosophy.

He carries out his attempt
most extensively

in his "Meditations On First Philosophy."

As we said, he wants to
find absolutely certain

has become known as
"Descartes' radical doubt."

The main idea is to
subject all our beliefs

to radical doubt, and
then see which of them

can withstand such doubt
and hence be accepted

As the application of this method reveals,

there is indeed a huge
difference between the things

that we in fact take
ourselves to be certain about

or that you have brushed
your teeth this morning,

Yet are you really justified
in being so certain?

Descartes thinks that after
having employed his method

of radical doubt, you will
have to admit that you are not.

that pass Descartes's
test of radical doubt.

After all you could just
as well be dreaming.

that you brushed your teeth this morning.

And most shockingly, perhaps,
not even mathematical beliefs

if we unite two collections
of two objects,

but what ensures that we
did not err every time

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