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__Script__ //Rene Descartes Discourse on Method//

Tutor: Hello Emily. Emily: Hi! Tutor: So, today we’re going to learn about Descartes. Emily: Who? Tutor: Rene Descartes. Emily: Oh you mean Rene from ANTM? (Thought bubble show Rene) Tutor: No… Rene Descartes. He was one of the most major philosophers during the Enlightenment. (Thought bubble shows Winston as Rene Descartes) Emily: (filing nails) Oh that was when all those Europeans were changing their thoughts right? Tutor: Yes, that’s right. He wrote an essay called the Discourse on Method, and that had an immense impact on European culture. In this essay he wrote about how to find the truth. Emily: Like a lie detector! Tutor: In a way… But he thought that the entire universe was a lie. He shows how he became skeptical of the entire world. Emily: Wait, stop using long words, they hurt my head. Tutor: Well, in other words, he started to doubt and question everything in the universe. He divided his essay into parts, and in the first part he explained why he doubted everything.

-Imagination- Descartes: What happens if the world was made by the Devil and everything is a lie? (Alison comes wearing devil horns) Descartes: How do we know that things are true and are not a lie?

-Reality- Emily: So he was basically just this really paranoid guy. Tutor: I guess you could say that. But Descartes was questioning what all humans at that time thought to be true without question – like the rules in science and math. Emily: He couldn’t prove them to be true? Tutor: Yes, because he thought since all of it could potentially be false, that it meant it was not true. Emily: So what did he do? Tutor: Well, that’s part two of The Discourse on Method. He said that he would stop believing everything, because everything could be a lie.

-Imagination- Descartes: If I assume everything is false, then I can make my thinking more reliable (eating cookie). Hmm… this cookie might not exist. People just believe that this cookie exists. (and drinks water holding a cup) Wait a minute! This cup also might not exist. Everything could be false. Friend: What are you doing? Descartes: I’m doubting all sort of things. They might not exist!!! My lord!!! Friend: You think these cookies do not exist? What’s wrong with you? Gosh. You’re weird.

-Reality- Emily: What, so he stopped believing everything? Tutor: Yes. Emily: Why? Because he thought that they were all lies? Tutor: He thought that if he stopped believing things that could be lies and build up knowledge of things that were unquestiona