Este Filósofo que te Obligaron a Estudiar TE ENGAÑÓ 🤬

About this video

• Video Title: Este Filósofo que te Obligaron a Estudiar TE ENGAÑÓ 🤬
• Channel: Adictos a la Filosofía
• Speakers: L (Host), and potentially another unnamed speaker.
• Duration: 00:09:19

Overview

This video critiques René Descartes' method of doubt as presented in his Meditations. The host argues that Descartes makes logical inconsistencies and "cheats" by not applying his radical doubt to certain faculties, such as memory and reason, which are essential for his philosophical project to succeed. The video suggests that starting from doubt is not a viable foundation for knowledge.

Key takeaways

• Descartes' Method of Doubt is Flawed: The video contends that Descartes' famous method of doubting everything to find certain truths is not consistently applied.
• Inconsistent Doubting of Memory: Descartes claims to doubt everything that can be doubted, yet relies on his memory to recall past deceptions of the senses and the very fact that he performed meditations, despite memory being fallible.
• Exclusion of Reason from Doubt: The host argues that Descartes fails to doubt reason itself, even though reason can also be fallible, as evidenced by errors in judgment or flawed arguments, especially when dreaming.
• Hypocrisy of the Method: If Descartes' doubt were consistently applied, he would not be able to progress beyond the first meditation or establish his foundational truths like the cogito or the existence of God.
• Alternative Foundation for Knowledge: The video proposes that knowledge and philosophy cannot start from doubt but must instead assume the reliability of our cognitive faculties.