Three Minute Philosophy: Rene Descartes

[TheXXmiseXX]

Do Soren Kierkegaard!!!

[KevMacca94]

Do Adam Smith.

[beats299]

Please make more of these!! (Can you do Sartre? =) )

[ramatirthadasa]

It took this stupid clown half his life just to figure out he existed?LMFAO!

[ramatirthadasa]

had to watch this $hit for phl class,almost smacked by prof. for screening this!

[benehan]

I like the recurring grotesque face that represents empiricism

[AlphahawkA25]

axiom, you mean the space cruise from Wall-E?

[Omniane]

Dude cool Idea! But why dont you make it a 5 minute philosophy and speak in a speed that people can actually understand or lets say i understand every sentence but my brain has no time to let it sink :(

[Jagabot]

Invest in a microphone invented after 1985. Thank you. Try a fucking headset, or maybe some tin cans.

[disasterpiece16]

Fuck, am I the only one who can't understand a fucking word this smug little bastard is saying?

[molineauxful]

@disasterpiece16 Yes, you are. I don't understand how any of you are missing what he is saying. I first saw this piece in a huge classroom with about 300 other people, during which time everyone kept cracking up and making comments. Just listen.

[Rekenbij]

The ontological argument is actually pretty sound, and unlike the definition of a square which does not say that it is the id quo maius non cogitare potest, and since an existing thing is more than what does not exist, the thing which is higher would be called God, since God by definition is iqm. whereas the definition of a square does not include its existence. But Descartes reasoned that because he could think he existed,he was not thecause of his own existence and someOne greatercreated him.

[trumpetplayer444]

methodological skepticism is pretty damn obvious.

[TheWorldofMax]

I don't even do philosophy, but this rocks

[PowerfulNiggaman]

I know a harsh entity exists, beyond a doubt. It probably thinks we're not truly suffering

[THEEVANTHETOON]

I wonder what Descartes would think would happen to you if you watched E-news, Toddlers and Tiaras, or some other endeavor that would require no thinking whatsoever?

[Foxstab]

@THEEVANTHETOON Why, you transcend and become one with the universe as your consciousness acceptance of nothingness balances your ying with the yang of infinity, naturally.

[AARVIDEOS1234]

I mean Isac Newton it's the iPod spell check

[AARVIDEOS1234]

0:44 he didnt discover that USAF Newton did

[missrudyfirdaus]

english is not my native language, so, y u speak fucking fast???

[thisisacunt]

by the way have fun trying to sleep to night lol

[titrupal]

watching this instead of writing my philosophy essay...

[witwanggibon]

You my man, are going to get me through my philosophy exam

[williamroberthall]

@witwanggibon the best way to pretend to your parents that you REALLY ARE WORKING!

[rsfanlvl108]

Fuck the start. France has given tons to society. and even just in philosophy in the 21st century we dominated it. Sartre and Camus. fucking dickhead. this guy doesn't know what he's talking about

[81lemme81]

@rsfanlvl108 ...and starting the Vietnam war for others to clean up, and attacking Prussia for no good reason (and losing -like normal- I might add), and Napoleon's great invention of Totalitarian Dictatorship (who is praised by all you ass holes for some unknown reason), and for not cleaning up your animals' shit, and for ingnoring personal hygene, and for being rude to EVRYONE not from France, and genius war tactics such as the Maginot Line....didn't France lose like fourty-five of fifty wars?

[81lemme81]

@rsfanlvl108 Hahaha See, historically, France was more-or-less laughed at. Still is. If you look at the true motives behind France "helping" the U.S. in their revolution, you'd find that they had no intention of helping anyone but themselves and wound up looking like idiots, just like whn Napoieon sold the entife western half of America to the U.S., trying to fund a war waged on all of Europe, and lost said war as well. It's worth a laugh. hahahahahaha ...France..... Such a shitty place.

[81lemme81]

@rsfenlvl108 I've been there and I swear I'll never go back. It stinks, and the people smell just as bad, but they're rude as a human can possibly be on top of that. Like cave-men, but ass holes. hahahaha

[Omniane]

@81lemme81 so just like the US tries to help all the poor countries by invading them right? Out of sheer selflessness!

[ojpfiechter]

you should make a vid about Sigmund Freud! I like your videos!

[MuzeMelpomene]

newton came up with the prism of light....

[Israe5l]

Thanks for the behind the scene. It brings out the human in the video.

"I think therefore I am". mmmh, that will be solipcisim. How about "one thinks therefore one is" sounds better. A lot better. Solipciscism is insane. It destroys the possibility of language.

[Nicklower]

This is honestly one of the most awesome videos i've ever seen

[iDaisyLYRICS]

awesomee 2morrow i have my final

[ZRwXProductions]

Please do Freud :)

[zairekrieger]

What about Russel?

[atypi]

I love you so much, and want to have your babies.

[jjhjjff]

Dude, the French contributed a lot after Descartes. I know that and I'm not even French.

[DescartesPhilosophy]

i like this video :)

[StackinnBuddah]

you gotta do one on spinoza man!

[okgo43]

how did you fuck up the cartesian plane lmfao

[iLOVEpicklesBRO28]

This video is the reason I'm doing a paper on him.

[DerekBCD]

BAWHAHAHAHA just finished my Philosophy 201 class and I found this truely lol hilarious. Kudos! This one clip is enough for me to know i want to subscribe lol

[TheDiamondSeagull]

Wouldn't be able to write Phil. Lit. essays without these little pieces of gold!

[Camacho4454]

Your voice... Just bothers the ever living crap out of me...

[TeteateteMN]

brilliant just one thing, it's the red pill not the blue pill :P

[NeonCode88]

HE LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE JACK BLACK AT THE END. NO ONE ELSE SEE THAT?

[callan1991]

Rene Descartes was a drunken fart. I drink therfore, I am.

[benwindu]

You should do one on John Stuart Mill

[timitermita]

COGITO ERGO SUM! 

[imranbug81]

use a better sound recorder and you can speak one sentence at a time at the end edit and merge them all together rather then trying to say whole stuff in one breath !!!!

so much philosophy and such a little brain.... ! huh!

[CORNP00]

"btwhave fun trying to sleep tonight" lol

[UnitedYellowEmirates]

@psvg1990 you're a *genius

[IWhoCreate]

my professor showed us this in class, hella funny

[NickyChick28]

I love your drawing of god

[pvsg1990]

descartes was a genious.

[mlmfilms]

who am i

[crazymembranes]

do marx

[MrSieish]

Come hang dood...

[Jaedeemusic]

I still put descartes before the whores

[DrDribs]

Rene is a girl's name.

[Pepotas125]

y u saying fuck all the time..it doenst sounds good with your annoying voice.

[Thesocraticbreed]

Do HEGEL

[KleioHistory]

Just one thing:

'Cogito ergo sum' (because it is Latin) is pronounced 'co-gee-toh air-go soom'.

And if you're British, your mantra is 'Bibo ergo sum'. (I drink, therefore, I am).

[felipeco20]

0:44 pink floyd invented it !

[RaneInfernum]

I am actually watching this BECAUSE I can't sleep. This video provided me with more reason to say, "Fuck school."

[TheTrevo410]

awesome video

[WTFskillsproductions]

okay, this was so fucking funny, I love British sarcastic drawl

[soicouldmessageyou]

these videos saved my life.

[dennisdamenace3500]

Descartes walks into a bar and has a drink. Once done, the bartender says "Would you like another one?" Descartes says "I think not" then vanishes from existence.

[gorgolyt]

@dennisdamenace3500 A implies B does not imply that not A implies not B

[rccx]

LOLL this is hilarious

[jewbar2point0]

its "I think thus I exist." big difference

[Myrusfusion]

Dude Ur fuckin mental and funny.nice one

[vytko1618]

awesome

[ApertureMiku]

*pasteur*

[Samaflame]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOT SAYING NEE CHEE (Nietzsche) you know your shit, sir

[SeriouslyFurious]

I'm in love with whomever made this video. Descartes was making me hate everything and this has made me feel happier. I love you. Thank you.

[MyBadGamertag]

From a square to God. That's a hell of a leap of logical proofs.

[n00b1356]

ouch mind blown up

[PraiseTheMetal591]

NIETZSCHE! PLEASE!

[PaxPirate]

This is like the zero punctuation of philosophy!

It's quick, it's entertaining and somehow enligthening, yet very subjective and you often do not agree entirely - but you still love it. ^_^

[elo333333333]

do Bakunin

[72307230]

Nice work!! =D

[72307230]

Don't pay attention to my prev comment since he didn't even said that in the vid :S

[72307230]

It wasn't Descartes but Newton that discovered that the white light is all lights combined..

[Deckkeetz2]

44 Mimes saw this video.

[TheMisterG25]

very good

[SuperRoseland]

i love rené descartes, and i love france!

[IWhoCreate]

Please do one on Emerson i gotta write a research paper on him lol

[MrJamesdevereblest]

I dream therefore I'm not

[hockygoalie3031]

i literally did not sleep....its 5am and im still writing a paper on this philosophy stuff that includes "day-cart", hume, hobbes, and berry o and rouseau :P gah!..thanks for the vid tho..it HELPED A LOT :)

[GypsyPoetMusician]

Yay for behind the scenes :D

[AlphahawkA25]

you sound like the guy from How To Speak Geek

[CrazyDancinChick09]

Watched this in Philosophy today, along with another one, but they actually made my day :P hehe

[laughingwolf330]

You're like...the Yahtzee of philosophy. This is awesome.

[TenTonHorse]

"He didn't even live long enough to get his mind fucked by Nietzsche."

That slayed me.

[Jurijgud]

Please make more videos! This is awesome.

[TheStanishStudios]

Haha 2:00 "I know Kung-Fu"

Chuck reference!

[allabastormaroe]

i don't think that a square was a good example of an axiom when topology is kept in mind.

[TheChryslers]

I had a good laugh at this... high five !! :D

[ILiveForScience]

Sartre.

[kermitcintronsucks]

you got the cartesian plane wrong. The vertical axis is the Y axis and the horizontal axis is the x axis.

[thepandaatemyface]

@kermitcintronsucks those are just guidelines. You can call your axes 'kitty' and 'stardust' and draw them as an x and it would still be a cartesian system. All you need is an origin and two points to act as a basis and you can describe the location of every point on the plane.

[habitats]

@kermitcintronsucks actually it doesn't matter even the slightest. x = y^2+2 is equally valid to y = x^2+2

[PurpleHandcuff]

@kermitcintronsucks oh he's Australian! Everything is upside down there.

[yashil17]

@kermitcintronsucks

wtf?!?! was this the difficult question that rose from this video?!?!

[DanieltheError]

@kermitcintronsucks it's a joke 

[RyWagner2]

@kermitcintronsucks I guess that's how the Cartesian coordinate system works in Australia.

[kermitcintronsucks]

these are great. my attention is about 4 minutes.

[EVERYVERSER]

aya.shii.org/2011/09/17/europe­an-philosophers-become-magical­-anime-girls/

[tbragg15]

I really wanted to put this on a powerpoint I did on Descartes. Until I found out it said fuck. In that case, I think I'll put it on there. This is too great.

[justin74923]

Your axes are the wrong way around. Just sayin.

[SeaPip]

@justin74923 Ha!  Excellent!

[LyricalLies14]

you got x and y the wrong way round

[AssualtgruppeVeir]

why must the french be so fucking confusing!?

[ganondorf59]

I was startled after reading Descartes, that he came to some conclusions I also did. The most important of which is: senses are a lie and nothing really exists. But differently than him, I say mathematics cannot exist, for the senses give you a mental image of an imaginary drawn object, which means this is an abstraction of an asbtraction, therefore non-existant. I proposed a few theories on what really "is" and came up with my "Chaosophia". "We think, therefore we are beyond those who are." -Me

[donshery]

this was more useful than my university class. lmao. thanks

[dragon5521]

i feel stupid but what piece do you use for the opening sequence?

[k0tz45]

LMAO i fucking love you!

[soterios11]

Do Wittgenstein!!!

[friend2kitties]

Dude, I totally think I love you. Seriously. Thanks for the great work.

[Dabhach1]

Why does it sound like somebody is writing on a whiteboard with a very scratchy pen? Have you any idea how irritating that is? It's almost as annoying as a philosophy undergraduate.

[vilxan]

WHY DID I WATCH THIS AT NIGHT-TIME??? Oh well, I quite enjoyed learning my A levels are pointless :)

[ChristeaufDeYoung]

Cogito ergo sum is Latin, the g's are always hard. Not "cojito". I'm not a troll, i'm a classicist.

[cbooth2008]

do one on marx!

[ThorGoLucky]

Excellent but please don't talk into the mic, talk to the side, so we don't hear the harsh breath thingies, thanks.

[allabastormaroe]

that stuff used to scare me when i was a kid. i realized when i got older that beliefs and memory are marks in the head and since we are functional in the universe that surrounds us, we are not in the position of tampering what is "real". if logic works by relevance (like minesweeper), and we (real people )are affected by other things, everything is realethat may leave a trace. how is a completely different story that goes by logical empiricism

[ruperticuscaeser]

This isn't mind fucking. It's total bullshit. If you actually think about what Descartes actually said, "Cognito ergo sum" it's wrong. "I think, only proves that a thought process exists. if you are in fact not you because you suffer from some severe psychological disorder then there is no way to prove by thought who thinks. thus it only proves that thought exists.

[ruperticuscaeser]

@ruperticuscaeser

The real proof of existence came from the world greatest philosopher, Popeye The Sailor Man, who is credited for having said "I Yam whatsk I yam, and thatsk alls thatsk I yam." This assumes that you can't know the true nature of what you are but you accept that you are infact whatever that nature is. and therefore because it doesn't challenge anything more than the fact that one exists by declaring one exists it IS the ultimate truth.

[cristien2]

@ruperticuscaeser but to think...means you as a being MUST exist to be thinking the thought. How can something nonexistent ..think?

[ruperticuscaeser]

@cristien2 ask any christian. apparently God has a lot of thoughts.

[cristien2]

@ruperticuscaeser Saying someone or something is thinking is a different case. What Descartes was trying to answer was his existence, not another being's. From what he's saying, we could only be sure of our own existence, not gods'.

[ruperticuscaeser]

@cristien2 and yet you can't prove that, cause by the same limitations, you can't prove Descartes existed, let alone said anything at all.

[cristien2]

@ruperticuscaeser that's a different story...that's a case with accuracy of recorded events and people..or history.

[ruperticuscaeser]

@cristien2 it's not a different story ... if you can't validate that much then you have no argument at all. and further more ... I fail to accept that you exist either.

[cristien2]

@ruperticuscaeser Right. of course i don't and of course you're just conversing with a non-existent being over the internet. Logical.

[ruperticuscaeser]

@cristien2 you imply that perhaps there is a need to be logical. perhaps I talk to myself in the shower too. Perhaps I fight with myself and loose. Perhaps I am doing just that right now!

There is no need for logic. it conflicts with my emotions. I want therefore I am illogical. There is a truth.

Descartes is still wrong. None of this has changed that.

[thekieferfunky]

@ruperticuscaeser you my friend are a moron

[81lemme81]

@ruperticuscaeser ...but it has changed the need for grammar and spell check apparently. How does one "loose" to one's self? Through a series of regular fisting? Or several sexual encounters? This has opened up a whole new series of questions, given you know how to spell, which you must since you're the genius who can disprove Descartes and all...

[ruperticuscaeser]

@81lemme81 I didn't disprove him ... Popeye did.

[John27346]

Rene Descartes walks into a bar; He says Ouch!, because it was a steel bar.

[Rossco9992]

My table is empty....

I don't even know If I have a table...

[666SPEED44DEMON666]

i would be alot happier at the end of these videos if the church hadn't taken over all of everything back then :/

[Thehappygoluckytime]

Months in Philosophy class... learned hardly shit. Three minutes on whim i understand. THANKS 

[segano1]

I seen his theories on the Story of Science series, his theory on everything being an illusion and that everything being pre determined struck a chord with some, his ultimate belief was that all we know is that 'we think, therefore we are', your thoughts are what creates the reality, take yourself out that box of innate senses and there is no sure way to determine what is true without it.

[COEXISTential]

@segano1 "I seen"? Seriously?

[segano1]

@COEXISTential I used "I seen" as short for "I have seen".

The past participle of the verb "to see" is seen. This form is used when using the perfect tenses (without going into any great detail we would usually use "seen" when we want to talk about something that we saw in the past without mentioning actually WHEN we saw it.

[COEXISTential]

@segano1

Quite. 'I have seen' would be shortened to 'I've seen'. The lack of the contracted 'have' removes the time-past element from the sentence making the past participle of 'seen' incorrect. You either need 'have' or its contracted form, without it "seen" should be 'saw'.

[dawndeschain999]

seriously, best channel ever. you're my hero, dude. here i was, doin some research on European philosophers, didn't expect to find much interesting, just a lot of dry mindfucking, and yet here you guys are - kickin ass. i'm actually enjoying learning boring shit, because you've made it so interesting. you could actually save the world if they installed THIS type of shit in schools - kids would actually listen, and attend! >:D Hail, the new approach...

[cupcakelove007]

Conclusion of my paper:

"Overall, it is necessary to realize that according to Descartes, none of this may be true to begin with."

[naughtyboymessiah]

genius use of youtube!

[debtbully3]

God is verb.

[uchihaavengerful]

1. x-axis and y-axis are switched

2. i wouldn't say that descartes came up with "pretty much all of science"!!!!! :S

3. your pronunciation of latin is hilarious

anyway, great videos ;)

[filthracer]

The French invented the compactor garbage truck in 1933.

[ecosdevocesausentes]

could be a great tool if you are trying to teach philosophy at the school... even if all we teach is false LOL. but now i need something so funny and intresting to teach in spanish... any subtitles?

[GFroilan]

"Everything you know is wrong. Or is it?! You don't know!

BTW Have fun trying to sleep tonight "

[neferiusnexus]

Reality is Universal and Infinite

Universal in the sense that its all around us and Infinite in the sense that our limited perception prohibits us from fully comprehending it

That being said our senses are fallible but not inaccurate

They have, after all, evolved to facilitate our limited comprehension

Truth is our own personal view of Reality which differs greatly for each person based on experience, wisdom, intelligence, curiosity, bias and acuity of our five senses

There is no Universal truth

[unscenegamers]

I'm just going to say that i am imagining everything that is and ever was.

[neferiusnexus]

@unscenegamers

I think, therefore I am?

WRONG!

I Exist, therefore I Am.

[Emanuel5920]

hahahahah good luck trying to sleep tonight :D

[neferiusnexus]

@Emanuel5920 I haven't slept in over 16 hours (-__-)'

[dannylee54]

the statement I think therefore I am is a false statement, you are because you are is more accurate, whether you think or not you still are. Fundamentally speaking the Philosophers never take into account simple faith, with out this you can hold no truths, I am still waiting for the evolutionist that can explain where the first atom came from, not what it became where did it come from?

[dannylee54]

the statement I think therefore I am is a false statement, you are because you are is more accurate, whether you think or not you still are.

[TheDanielWooi]

Love the plugs about the French :P

[ersieesmoerio]

thumbs up if you really wanted to give descartes a high five :D