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Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy

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	Descartes spent his life using logic to understand the definition and nature of knowledge and how one attains it.
	These are lecture videos about the Meditations on First Philosophy be Rene Descartes, originally published in Latin in 1641.
	In his first two Meditations on First Philosophy, he concludes that he can be certain of one thing at least: that he exists.

René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy

(Translated from the original Latin by William Molyneux, 1680)

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Contents:

Meditation I: Of Things Doubtful

Some years past I perceived how many Falsities I admitted as Truths in my Younger years, and how Dubious those things were which I raised from thence; and therefore I thought it requisite (if I had a designe to establish any thing that should prove firme and permanent in sciences) that once in my life I should clearly cast aside all my former opinions, and begin a new from some First principles. But this seemed a great Task, and I still expected that maturity of years, then which none could be more apt to receive Learning; upon which Account I waited so long, that at last I should deservedly be blamed had I spent that time in Deliberation which remain’d only for Action.

This day therefore I conveniently released my mind from all cares, I

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