Why Descartes Always Wins

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René Descartes' "I think, therefore I am" ("cogito ergo sum") is perhaps the single most famous phrase in all of Western philosophy. It is, however, far too easy to assume we know what the phrase means. It is all too easy to have an equally hasty opinion about whether there is an important insight here or merely a claim so absurd it hardly needs debunking.

In this livestream, Il look at the texts of Descartes where this phrase appears as well as the work of two twentieth century commentators on Descartes' idea:

→ Jaako Hintikka's "Cogito, Ergo Sum: Inference or Performance?"

→ Jean-Luc Marion's "The Original Otherness of the Ego: A Rereading of Descartes's Meditatio II."

These commentators offer insightful perspectives from analytic philosophy (Hintikka) and phenomenology (Marion).

For further discussion, see my post at → https://jimmyharing.substack.com/p/de...

0:00 Introduction
6:33 Discourse on Method
12:02 Second Meditation
26:35 Other Passages from the Meditations
38:43 Jaako Hintika
1:35:45 Jean-Luc Marion
2:31:17 Conclusion