/lit/ - Literature

What if an evil demon is tricking you into believing that you're posting on /lit/?

gonna start reading meditations, should i read each objection to the related meditations afterwards? or should i read all 6 meditations and then all 6 objections?

What was his problem?

What did you think of his arguments in this work? Did they influence your thinking?

>be me
>philosophy major at liberal arts school
>underage but drink and smoke and party a little
>have a couple friends and a girlfriend
>meet a kid at a party who is on acid and trying to convince people to smoke DMT
>hippie hair, hippie regalia, the whole nine yards
>he is also philosophy major
>we take classes on ancient and modern philosophy and logic and metaphyics and ethics and aesthetics and political philosophy
>he is doing a lot of drugs but pulls it together into magnificent syntheses
>one day he starts telling me about how he "completed the system of german idealism"
>"all knowledge is auto-initiatic"
>"dialectical history is mortal kombat"
>"kanye west is an alien buddha"
>"the body without organs is stirner's unique"
>"the reconciliatin of theory and practice is found in theoria or theosis whereupon the text can be created ludically"
>"philosophy is both midwife and mother"
>"there is a pythagorean relationship between muses, music, and musicians... A muse squared plus B muse squared equals C muse squared"
>"if you look closely everyone is three people"
>"the phenomenology is a bildungsroman to the boddhisattva path"
>"socrates was a shaman"
>"make oneself like the dead"
>"the work of art depicts the birth of the artist"
>"the homunculus is the daimon"
>"everyone has synesthesia"
>really cool stuff, totally fascinating
>two weeks later he drops out of school
>never hear from him again
>supposedly "schizophrenia"

What's lit's opinion on Descartes' Meditations on 1st philosophy?

Without reading Objections and his answers to him, I'm left out wondering how does he unify the body and mind, spiritual and material? I've read material interpretation about unifying them (by Arendt) but Meditations left me lacking

and how can he be sure what he understands is clear and distinct (because God guarantees this is truth)? Because this would assume he has 100% knowledge of whatever he is thinking about, and how can he know that?

Where do I go from Descartes?

Sry, brainletism and auto-tic-tac-toe :_.

Do i really need to read all ~500 pages of Meditations on First Philosophy?

>buy this book
>mom asks if I'm

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Descartes - Meditationes de Prima Philosophia
Threw Western Philosophy off course and into subjectivistic, idealist bullshit for literally 400+ years, still wading through terrible mind-body dualism garbage and revivals of Kantian epistemology trash. Waiting to go back to the good old days of Albertus Magnus and Bonaventure, when philosophy was actually good.