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Thoughts on A Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conduct and Application of the Sciences?

>> No.13480718

>>13480602
No.

>> No.13480747

>>13480602
What are YOUR thoughts on A Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conduct and Application of the Sciences?

>> No.13480822

>>13480747
A masterpiece.

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>>13480602
"Cogito, ergo sum" is cringe and a tautology

READ KIERKEGAARD

>> No.13480872

>>13480822
Dito.

>> No.13480887

>>13480833
Read him again when you're not 18

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>>13480833
Retard.

>> No.13480909

>>13480833
>He argues that the cogito already presupposes the existence of "I", and therefore concluding with existence is logically trivial. Kierkegaard's argument can be made clearer if one extracts the premise "I think" into the premises "'x' thinks" and "I am that 'x'", where "x" is used as a placeholder in order to disambiguate the "I" from the thinking thing.
>Here, the cogito has already assumed the "I"'s existence as that which thinks. For Kierkegaard, Descartes is merely "developing the content of a concept", namely that the "I", which already exists, thinks. As Kierkegaard argues, the proper logical flow of argument is that existence is already assumed or presupposed in order for thinking to occur, not that existence is concluded from that thinking.

This argument is incredibly similar to that of Nietzsche, what the hell

>> No.13481051

>>13480602
It's an interesting insight into how the Enlightenment was formed. Descartes has a radically egalitarian optimism about the future of education and philosophy - the Enlightenment is defined by this. It makes sense that Descartes is often pinpointed as the beginning of the Enlightenment.

>> No.13481118

>>13480602
He has pretty much the only decent logical system in all of philosophy and the only one worth using in math/science. Garbage like Kantian logic does not belong