This video is a good introduction.
Deleuze is concerned with the fact that aristotlearistotle
aristotle was a disciple of plato who wrote on physics, biology, metaphysics, literature, logic, rhetoric, etc.
, descartesdescartes
descartes was a french philosopher and mathematician. he's not technically a part of skeptic but he has influences of its thought.
, and kantkant
immanuel kant (1724 - 1804) was a philosopher from prussia. he was christian. he was inspired by hume. he wrote critique of pure reason, Critique of Practical Reason.
For Kant, there i... start with the assumption that people are geared toward knowledge/wisdom and thinking lets us get there. But that is a subjective presupposition of thought – the image of thought! Such a statement goes like "Everybody knows that…"
Deleuze is going to destroy the image of thought, which treats thought as a representation. The "cogito" is the most general principle of representation. The thinking subject is the philosophical version of a common sense that translates between faculties.
There are eight postulates.
- Good will of the thinker and good nature of thought.
- Common sense as the concordia facultatum and good sense as the distribution which guarantees this concord.
- Recognition inviting all the faculties to exercise themselves upon an object supposedly the same, and the consequent possibility of error in the distribution when one faculty confuses one of its objects with a different object of another faculty.