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Invent the lightbulb

spell existence

Get a haircut.

Prove the existence of God

Resurrect his mother

>proved his own existence
nope
>proved existence of god
nope
>paved way
yes
>was happy
not sure

>>605030
this. He was not able to prove his own existence, nor was he able to prove the existence of god.

not be cockeyed

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>>605030
How did he not proved his on existence?

Cogito ego sum. Show me a better argument than that.

Not die.

>>605054
Instantiation principle.

>>605054
circular arguments bro

>>605068
Not a circular argument, but okay, show me someone who did it better.

The cogito is a profound insight, but his proof of God's existence is essentially Anselm's ontological argument and suffers from the same critiques (e.g., Kant's "existence is not a predicate" critique).

>>605073

Schopenhauer

Dual knowledge which we are only privy to with our own bodies and consciousness. Everything else is only known from one side.

Descartes is cool, but Kant is the best philosopher of all time.

Right on Metaphysics.
Right on Epistemology.
Right on Ethics.

>>605075
Agreed.

As House says in response to the ontological as proof argument, "Watch out for those Minotaurs on your drive home."

>>605395
what did Kant do? Not criticize him I just don't know.

>>604989
He can't go before a horse

>>605451
Ended the Empiricist/Rationalist Debate by proposing an epistemology that takes sense experience and a priori reason into account.
Suggested that there is a world beyond human experience and one with human experience; essentially, it is almost impossible for us to know the Noumenal World, paving the way for Existentialism and Pragmatism.
Invented Deonotological Ethics.

>>605395
Ehhh, some of Kant's arguments on morality are just... The whole idea that its better to do the just thing out of respect for morality, even if you're bitter and butthurt about it, than it is to do the just thing because it makes you feel good (woman helping at an orphanage because it warms her heart to help children). If people do good things because it gives them the warm fuzzies, so what? Isn't the bitter, law-abiding citizen also acting on his own personal interest... To uphold his own moral standard and achieve pride? There is nothing intrinsically valuable, not even morality.

>>605474
so proving there is no such thing as a selfless deed?

>>604989

...Run.

Does anyone else likes to imagine Descartes as one of Dumas' three Musketeers?
He'd make an awesome Aramis.

>>605595
Or d'Artagnan, whatever works for you.

Yeah, invent calculus.

not be french

>>605030

He didn't "pave the way to the age of enlightenment" either. He was one of the people that appeared to lay the groundwork of thought that was used or expanded upon in the 18th century, but he was only one of many.

>>605054
i can has wizard too?

survive in cold weather

>>604989
>Proved his own existance

>>605030
>nope

>>605054
>Cogito ego sum. Show me a better argument than that.

>>605068
>circular arguments bro

>>605073
>okay, show me someone who did it better.
I fucking lolled

Can't rest in peace *his bones moved throughout all of Europe! read Descartes Bones It is a very interesting read! Plus he was a very sickly man FYI!

>>606333
OOOH SICK BURN!

Too bad I disagree with all but the first one. Granted, he didn't prove his existence. He proved mine.

Doubting you exist is impossible because you have to exist to do the doubting. How much simpler could it be?

Get out of bed before noon.

People who read philosophy are naturally inferior, most intelligent humans can imagine philosophical answers to all of life's questions themselves - with the exception of idiotic religious folk like descartes or kant etc.

Bring Ed's mom back to life.

>>606773
I don't know about Descartes being religious, I'm left under the impression that he wrote religion into his philosophy just to keep selling books and being invited to parties. It's not like trolling with atheism was an option at that time.

Proved his own existence, yes. Proved the existence of God? Not so sure. Rest of it's alright though.

>>606795
He was a devout Roman Catholic Like I said before READ "Descartes Bones"

Hey guys, he also invented the Cartesian plane, making it possible to use algebra to describe Euclidean geometry.

YOu are now aware that Descartes was afraid almost his entire life about almost everything.
An odd mind-set for a former soldier, though.

>>606816
He also refused to get up before 11 and did most of his thinking while sitting inside a stove. More evidence that genius and insanity are one and the same.

>>606773
>intelligent humans

wut

>>606824
actually, it was really cold outside, so he kept his tent really hot, and called it his stove. just saying.

Ayn Rand

-Objectivisim
-Kant was evil

what the fuck

>>606856
Still an odd way of puting it. But then again, I'm not French, so it might be some kind of obscure humour that only works in that language. Like a pun or something.