{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Rene Descartes - Part 4: Fault Lines in the House of Certainty","description":"What happens when you demand absolute certainty—and the very structure designed to deliver it begins to crack? Descartes’s system was bold, but critics wasted no time pressing on its weak points.\r\n\r\nIf you start with the isolated self, can you ever truly escape that solitude? The first challenge is almost built in. The Cogito gives you certainty that you exist as a thinking thing. But what about the world outside, other people, or even your own body? Descartes needs God to bridge this gap, but that creates a notorious problem—the so-called Cartesian Circle.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/rene-descartes","author_name":"The Archive Network"}