Descartes; Doubt and Reality

Beginner Introduction to Descartes. Tells the story of how the greandfather of modern philosophy doubts all reality and brings it back based on something absolutely certain.
Contains explanation of innate ideas, rationalism and the subject/object dichotomy, important for understanding philosophers after Descartes.

0:00 What to doubt
3:32 Arguments for doubt
8:56 I exist
11:21 I am thinking thing
14:30 Mind better known than object
20:59 Rationalism
23:33 Subject/Object dichotomy
27:56 I am not alone. God exists
33:25 I did not create myself
36:44 Innate ideas
38:30 Truth and falsity
40:29 God guarantees truth
43:33 Objects exist
48:50 Commentary

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