As exercise at the gym creates bodily arete, sophia creates mental arete. To have the leisure for sophia, one must practice prudence and contemplation( to empty the mind and attention to free it for focus on practical reasoning and sophia). I then order Irwin's book on first principles, and you issue Descartes deduction from his first principle, the cogitio. by Rene Descartes PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the rst, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals. Is this not synchronous? I listen to your lectures on Ethics Book 6, which identify sophia as a result of nous and epistime. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - You can find over 2000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - Purchase Descartes' Discourse on Method. Philosophy up to his time - in Descartes' view - cannot provide proper foundations for the other disciplines, because philosophers disagree with each other and their principles. The only subject in which he is able to find certain and incontrovertible proofs - agreement among its practitioners - is mathematics.
He considers languages, history, literature, poetry, rhetoric, theology, philosophy, and mathematics. This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Discourse on Method, and focuses on his evaluation in book 1 of the academic subjects that he studied, and their capacities to provide us with genuine knowledge.
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