How to pronounce “descartes” in English

Descartes, Pascal, Nietzsche, only now he has 200 pages of these copies.

Descartes that there is inside each one of us a thing that thinks and feels and

Descartes in essence what he did was provide the intellectual foundation for modernity

Descartes has gone down in history very much as this almost personification of disembodied intellect you know even his

Descartes um that Descartes set up and the philosophers in one way another have tried to deal with

Descartes and I said yes I put that in the book you know

When Descartes was here, the newest thing was those little pneumatic machines like you have at the bank that sucks your cheque over

Rene Descartes was there as kind of the reigning intellectual celebrity of the uh of the faculty

um Descartes was of course an investigator into the natural world like

that Descartes is among other things the inventor or or we could credit or blame him with this uh what is the central

um Descartes then gave a solution to the the notion of of the the mind-body problem and this dualism his solution

It's René Descartes' point.

Always pause for Descartes.

According to Descartes, it had been designed by God.

I think Rene Descartes said that perfect numbers, like perfect men, are very rare.

Male Presenter: Ever since Descartes, thinkers have been fascinated with the mind-body dichotomy.

book is called Descartes bones and it's actually a terribly descriptive title it

uh some philosophers since Descartes have noted that the person who is the you know the the father of modern

This is René Descartes, he's one of the most famous people in history.

with the Descartesian Illusion?

And at the time of Descartes or Plato, they'd say, that's ridiculous.

Quoting the "Meditations," this is Descartes.

or look up what exactly Descartes said?

As the 17th century French philosopher Rene Descartes pointed out, "If we know that in some cases our senses give us inaccurate information

So almost everyone has heard of Descartes and Plato.

And this goes right back to Rene Descartes, the principal philosopher of the modern era.

to the views of people like Descartes.

I wrote a book about Descartes, and a couple of books about Einstein.

which you are is your brain Descartes and others in the tradition have said

in fact at that time Descartes after his death people around Europe did seances to summoning his Spirit seeing him in

French Revolution when the bones of Descartes during the French Revolution of course it was this Titanic uh Revolution not just against the state

and then it this skull of Descartes comes into play and that seems to to kill this Theory well 20 years later

question there are three top Descartes scholars in the world today uh then they all were

um uh the top French Descartes scholar who also happens to be a priest thinks that no Descartes was in fact a good

I first moved there because Descartes had spent most of his career in the

And it was best formulated by Rene Descartes who said, "I think, therefore I am," among other things.

So the idea that -- the Descartesian Dualism is that there's a little man in our heads with a bunch of levers. Light comes in from the eyes, from the ears,

You know, Descartes said, I think, therefore I am.

going back to the Greek thinkers and coming through Descartes and so on, where just because you doubt, therefore you know that you exist.

failed to find if you remember if you read Descartes.

Now, Descartes had proposed idea of the animal machine.

The French Enlightenment, René Descartes, had a view that we're primarily rational creatures.

is about the bones of the French philosopher Rene Descartes which is as you would imagine a very small specific

uh I'll give you a little bit of background Descartes was born in 1596 and he died in 1650 and

one thing they did was they actually used the bones of Descartes in this process they've had them brought back to Paris and then they did a parade through

effect stopped history to ponder the significance of Descartes as a progenitor of democracy and so on and their own role in things in other words

opposite side was someone found the skull of Descartes and Descartes was a very small man and his skull was very small I've seen it at the Museum in

non-physical realm we can ponder the thoughts that somebody like Descartes or or Jesus or whoever it is thought and

terrain had had uh Reign Over that you Descartes and others uh called the one