Rene Descartes, Meditation 4 | Is God Responsible for Human Error? | 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, and his discussion of whether or not God could be responsible for human error, either though deceiving human beings or through the faculties that God provides to the human being, such as intellect or understanding, and will. Descartes provides reasons for holding the human being, and not God, responsible for error.
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Thank you very much. Reading Descartes now!
You're welcome!
I was always taught that Descartes was the great break away from previous philosophy, ushering in a more modern skepticism. I suppose that is still true but it is interesting to me from these lectures how much of his thought lines up with earlier thinkers. His theodicy here, his privatio boni, lines up nicely with the likes of Aquinas, Augustine, and Aristotle.
Yep. People love to teach a simple story. Going to the texts is the antidote for those narratives!
This is great
Glad you found it useful
I want to reflect upon this. If our will is so unlimited, and godlike, then I see intimations of Nietzsche (except he seems to think that this "deifies" the ubermench's will and thus creative agency in the world), and the stoics ( our wills are free, and the good will is of absolute value). Thank you
It's better to say that our will is similar to God's in that respect. It's not "godlike" since it can't accomplish whatever it wills simply by willing
Can you do a video on J Krishnamurthi's philosophy, I would love to see your point of view.
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