Episode 76, René Descartes (Part IV - Meditations on First Philosophy, 5-6)

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Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane

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🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

All my life, I have been fed apples from that tree. I was told it was the only tree worth eating from. Every day, whether it was in school or in the church, someone would arrive with a basket, and I would take what they offered. Today a similar basket lays in front of me, full of apples I've been saving so to take a closer inspection.

Check those apples for me would you? Why so worried? Surely if they are good, there is nothing to worry about. You've heard of the Italian who was punished for checking, you say? I understand. I will do it myself.

There are too many in there to check one by one. I shall take them all out and only place back in the basket the ones that are certifiably good! I think the Italian might have been onto something, they all look rotten! I must check closer. I refuse to accept that they are all bad!

Ah, there is one. That will do. Perhaps the seeds can be used to grow more good apples...

Contents

Part I. The Life of René Descartes.

Part II. Meditations on First Philosophy, 1-2.

Part III. Meditations on First Philosophy, 3-4.

Part IV. Meditations on First Philosophy, 5-6.

Part V. Further Analysis and Discussion.

Links

René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy: in which are demonstrated the existence of God and the distinction between the human soul and body (Early Modern Texts).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Pan
0:01.2	Pan
0:02.1	Sygast
0:04.2	Hello and welcome to our first reading of The Fellowship of the Ring.
0:22.5	Just kidding, it's part four, the meditations, meditation five and six.
0:29.4	There's a few layers to that.
0:30.9	First of all, that's a throwback to the end of last episode, so attentive listeners would have got that.
0:36.3	It's also a throwback to the early
0:39.1	episodes, which we used to do as well for really attentive listeners, but it's also quite
0:43.6	deceitful because it infers that it's going to be as fun as our early episodes, and it's not
0:48.9	going to be, because we're doing an ontological argument for the existence of God.
0:54.2	The ontological argument is fun, Jack.
0:56.8	Yeah, it's cool, isn't it?
0:58.4	It is cool.
0:59.1	It's the most cool thing possible.
1:00.7	It's so perfect that it contains coolness within it and therefore must be...
1:05.6	It's an essential property of the argument.
1:08.2	I can't conceive of a not cool ontological argument. Welcome to the fifth meditation,
1:15.6	i.e. the essence of material things and the existence of God considered a second time.
1:21.9	Like we've said, we're going to finish the meditations today. We'll get on to the sixth meditation
1:26.7	in 20, 30 minutes
1:27.8	time. Let's talk about the essence of material things then and the existence of God. Should we
	...

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