Special Episode 6| Rene Descartes Meditation Three| God and Establishing The Metaphysical Foundation

In the sixth special episode of Dissecting Philosophy with Dr McDonald, he discusses the Third Meditation in Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy. There is a discussion of criticisms of the third meditation by Descartes' contemporaries theologian Johannes Caterus and theologian, philosopher and mathematician Antonine Arnauld. The film Bruce Almighty (2003) is also discussed to illustrate the section.

If you would like to follow along the version of the text he's using is Mediations, Objections and Replies, edited and translated by Roger Ariew and Donald Cress (Hackett, 2006)

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