Rene Descartes, Meditation 4 | The Freedom and Power of The Will | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Rene Descartes' work, The Meditations, specifically on meditation 4, in which Descartes discusses the power and range of the will, and the extent of the will's freedom. The will, according to Descartes, has a capacity so unlimited that it resembles the divine will in some respects. Descartes also affirms that the will being inclined by knowledge or divine grace does not remove or lessen the freedom of the will.
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[@theelderskatesman4417]

I have watched every video I can find on Descartes in recent weeks. Yours are the best, by far

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks! That’s very nice to read

[@LuisHuerta-oh5pm]

I just watched your video on Ch. 5 before this, and with that I see where he is going. Is it that animals / machines do not have IT? But we know that animals can make choices based on their instincts by evaluating the environment, right? How do we differentiate that will from ours, which is guided by knowledge which could be thought as a different form of environment (since we choose to act upon that particular knowledge which was given to us from our environment)

[@GregoryBSadler]

It could be Descartes is wrong. Or it could be that machines can respond in more complex ways than we thought