Rene Descartes, Meditation 2 | The Cogito and Thinking Being | 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 2 and on his discussion of the famous "Cogito" (a formula that doesn't actually appear in the Meditations), or speaking more broadly, the conception of human being as a thinking substance. This includes a variety of modes of thought, including reasoning, doubting, affirming and denying in judgements, willing and willing-against, remembering, imagining, sense-perception, and feeling emotions
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[@xxx6555]

"Thinking" in the original Cartesian sense also includes imagining and even sensing. This part is really interesting.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Yes - that's pretty common in modern philosophy from Descartes onward

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[@anorderedhole2197]

I can see why Descartes mentions the Cogito after extending doubt in all directions. However, thinking categorically implies a subject and object. I cannot agree that just merely being a subject without a bonafide object is 'actual'--the minimum wage of being. Descartes is a curious foil from Hegel who suggests that self-reflection creates negation and not something certain. I am glad, though, that Descartes does not immediately start warring with people after becoming self conscious... or mabye that evil demon is just a projection of the other subjects in his world that cause him anxiety.

[@GregoryBSadler]

In reflexive thinking, the subject is its object.

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