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The HBS hosts don their nightgowns, cozy up to the fire, and contemplate wax.

There is, perhaps, no more famous statement in the history of philosophy than Rene Descartes\u2019 \u201cI think, therefore I am.\u201d This conclusion is reached in the Second of Descartes\u2019 Meditations on First Philosophy and is seen as one of the crowning achievements of modern philosophy, at least that kind of philosophy usually called \u201crationalism.\u201d In fact, this claim can be said to be the founding moment of a trajectory in philosophy that goes from Descartes, through Spinoza and Leibniz, Kant and Hegel, into Edmund Husserl\u2019s phenomenology. It has been the target of a great deal of criticism as well. Some insist it is the origin of a dualism of mind and body. Others insist that it is the founding moment of a kind of subjectivity that is set over and against the material world. And others point to the class antagonism that is contained in the statement. Enrique Dussel goes so far as to insist that before there is the \u201cego cogito\u201d there is the \u201cego conquero.\u201d What does Descartes actually argue in this founding text? How does he conclude that \u201cI exist as long as I am thinking?\u201d And what consequences does he draw. Let\u2019s bring Descartes into the bar and ask him WTF?

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https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/decartes-second-meditation/

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