Rene Descartes, Discourse On Method - Being And Nothingness - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher Rene Descartes' work The Discourse on Method, and focuses on on his references in part 4 to being and nothingness (néant) in relation to truth and falsity.

Descartes writes of our ideas - when they are clear and distinct - as being true and as participating in being. When our ideas are confused and obscure, they are false and - as he tells us - they "participate in nothingness." We can also think about our own metaphysical status as poised in some sense between the fullness of being and nothingness.

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