Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

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🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On René Descartes's Rules for Direction of the Mind (1628).

Is there a careful way to approach problems that will ensure that you'll always be right? What if you just never assert anything you can't be sure of? This is Descartes's strategy, modeled on mathematics. We likewise carefully move step-by-step through this text.

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0:16.4	We're listening to the partially examined life,
0:18.5	a podcast by some guys who are at one point
0:20.4	said on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it.
0:22.9	Our question for episode 229 is something like,
0:26.0	are there mental habits to optimize our approach
0:28.8	to philosophical and scientific problems?
0:31.2	And we read rules for direction of the mind by a rainy day card
0:34.8	written around 1628.
0:36.5	For more information, please check out partiallyexaminedlife.com.
0:39.7	This is Mark Linson-Mire with truths growing from my brain
0:42.5	like Athena from Zeus in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:45.5	This is Seth Paschin in two-hitting simple truths in Austin, Texas.
0:49.6	This is Dylan Casey extending myself in multiple ways of knowing
0:53.9	in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:55.5	This is Wes Holland in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:58.4	All right, this had been on the table for a long time.
1:01.6	I think Dylan, you might have brought it up first right after we did
1:04.0	our Objectivism episode because that purported to be
1:07.9	some kind of version of this.
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