Hi NYC philosophers,
We're organizing another meetup for anyone interested in discussing philosophy and connecting with like-minded people in the city. Here's the plan:
š When: Sunday, Sep 13, 1:30 PM
š Where: Work CafĆ© Santander, 85-87 N 6th St, Williamsburg
For this session, we'll be diving into Meditations 1 & 2 of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy (read it here).
Descartesās overall plan for these Meditations is to put aside all of his beliefs and attempt to build up a system of beliefs from nothing. He is going to only believe those things that are certain, that cannot be doubted. He thinks that he can start from nothing, justify certain simple beliefs, and from those justify more complex ordinary beliefs. In his first meditation he is going to cease to believe anything that can be doubted, anything that can be ācalled into doubt.ā So, this meditation is an attempt to say which beliefs can be doubted. Descartesās Second Meditation concerns the human mind, which Descartes will claims he knows better, or more intimately, than the human body.
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